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Darrah to think something of importance was going forward, and though she did not dare disobey his order, she resolved to try to find out what was their object in holding this private night meeting, probably hoping to be able to do something to prevent the carrying out of their plans against the liberties of her country.
"There is often a time in the youth of men, to whom illumination comes later, when they hang divided between the need of woman and some inner austerity that commands them to go alone." "If they disobey, does the light fail to come?" Beth asked. "It is less likely to come.
As many would hesitate to disobey his command, there would be no united resistance. Besides, the Prophet had been left in charge, and a victory over him would destroy the Indians' faith in his supernatural power. This faith Harrison had come to regard as the backbone of the Indian alliance.
She obeyed, looking pale and frightened. He drew her in between his knees, put one arm round her, and taking the bowl he had just brought in the other hand, held it to her lips, with the command, "Drink this! every drop of it!" When that was done, he commanded, "Now break this bread into that other bowl of milk, take your spoon and eat it." Now thoroughly frightened, she did not dare disobey.
She would not indeed absolutely disobey the express commands of her father or mother, but when she had made no promise, she was apt to take her own way, not perceiving that to neglect or to run counter to a parent's known wishes is disobedience.
That he could by one sweeping edict authorise all his subjects to disobey whole volumes of laws, no tribunal had ventured, in the face of the solemn parliamentary decision of 1673, to affirm.
"You have no right to dictate to me on such matters," said Desmond hotly, facing his brother. "I've no right, haven't I?" shouted Richard. "I've a guardian's right to thrash you if you disobey me, and by George! I'll keep my promise." He lifted the riding whip, without which he seldom went abroad, and struck at Desmond. But the boy's blood was up.
Rozella's beginning her acquaintance too with the princess, by flattery, had no good aspect; and the sudden effect it had upon her, so as to make her forget, or wilfully disobey, her commands, by inviting Rozella to Placid Grove, were circumstances which greatly alarmed her.
For the present you should remain here. 'I cannot, papa. He told me to go back to-morrow. I would not disobey him now, not now, were it ever so. Then the old man paused as though he were going on with the argument, but finding that he had said all that he had to say, he slowly made his way upstairs. 'Good-night, mamma, said Hester, returning only to the door of the sitting-room.
They meet, they fight each other: their disobedience of the laws is an effect of their free-will; they are punishable.” “What a king can do in such a case,” he adds, “God who has an infinite power and prescience, infallibly does in relation to all the actions of men.” But the king, in the supposed case, does not act on the minds of the duellists; their disposition to disobey the laws does not proceed from him; whereas, according to the theory of Descartes, nothing enters into the mind of man which does not spring entirely from God.
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