German composition

Note 13 — Section 102. THE DRAMA OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1848. II.

Reading edition

‘whom — Minister’, construe ‘whom he only (erst) yesterday appointed Prime Minister, to satisfy (genügen, with the dat.) the impetuous (ungestüm) demands of the people’. To appoint, to create, ernennen. Verbs denoting choosing and appointing, as ernennen, machen, and erwählen, to choose, to elect, require in German an Accusative followed by the prep. zu with the dative, when in English they govern two Accusatives in the active voice; as—

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