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...nature produced about him, he appears in a disorder of mind suitable to one who had forfeited both his innocence and his happiness ; he is filled with...having given him an unasked existence : " Did I request 1 bre, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me ? or here...

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...for the part which she has given him in existence ? Will he not rather say with our first parent: ' Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man ?' And assuredly the imagination will, in his case, as little as the moral sense, minister to patriotism....

...like manner, govern two accusatives. In the following we have a variety of the same construction : " Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man ?" — MILTON, x., 744. See § 511. Note III. — Nouns in the objective case follow certain verbs...

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...Whatsoever positive ideas we have," &c. — Locke. 4. Some verbs are followed by two objectives. " Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me man ?" Milton. " Ask Awwhis opinion." A similar construction is observable in the sentence, " the ring...