’Did I request thee, maker, from my clay
    To mold me man?’—­Milton, 10, 744.

’God seems to have made him what he was.’—­Life of Cowper."[354]—­Philosophical Gram., p. 170. Improved Gram., p. 120.  See also Weld’s Gram., 2d Ed., p. 154; “Abridged Ed.,” p. 119; and Fowler’s E. Gram., Sec.450.  So Murray:  “Some of our verbs appear to govern two words in the objective case; as, ’The Author of my being formed me man.’—­’They desired me to call them brethren.’—­’He seems to have made him what he was.’ “—­Octavo Gram., p. 183.  Yet this latter writer says, that in the sentence, “They appointed me executor,” and others like it,” the verb to be is understood.”—­Ib., p. 182.  These then, according to his own showing, are instances of apposition; but I pronounce then such, without either confounding same cases with apposition, or making the latter a species of ellipsis.  See Obs. 1st and 2d, under Rule 3d.

OBS. 8.—­In general, if not always, when a verb is followed by two objectives which are neither in apposition nor connected by a conjunction, one of them is governed by a preposition understood; as, “I paid [to] him the money”—­“They offered [to] me a seat”—­“He asked [of] them the question”—­“I yielded, and unlock’d [to] her all my heart.”—­Milton.  In expressing such sentences passively, the object of the preposition is sometimes erroneously assumed for the nominative; as, “He was paid the money,” in stead of, “The money was paid [to] him.”—­“I was offered a seat,” in stead of, “A seat was offered [to] me.”  This kind of error is censured by Murray more than once, and yet he himself has, in very many instances, fallen into it.  His first criticism on it, is in the following words:  “We sometimes meet with such expressions as these:  ‘They were asked a question;’ ’They were offered a pardon;’ ‘He hath been left a great estate by his father.’  In these phrases, verbs passive are made to govern the objective case.  This license is not to be approved.  The expressions should be:  ’A question was put to them;’ ‘A pardon was offered to them;’ ’His father left him a great estate.’”—­L.  Murray’s Octavo Gram., p. 183.  See Obs. 12, below.

OBS. 9.—­In the Latin syntax, verbs of asking and teaching are said to govern two accusatives; as, “Posce Deum veniam, Beg pardon of God.”—­Grant’s Latin Gram., p. 207. “Docuit me grammaticam, He taught me grammar.”—­Grant, Adam, and others.  And again:  “When a verb in the active voice governs two cases, in the passive it retains the latter case; as, Doceor grammaticam, I am taught grammar.”—­Adam’s Gram., p. 177.  These writers however suggest, that in reality the latter accusative is governed,