Verily, from that day I resolved to accomplish whatever behests I should receive from the Brahmanas.
They pour libations on the blazing sacrificial fire (every day) and 'are obedient to the behests of their preceptors and seniors.
So the pastor's functions are not legislative, but executive.
And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.
At length, Colonel Moses Alexander, a magistrate under the Colonial Government, succeeded in getting wagons by impressment, to convey the munitions to Hillsboro, to obey the behestsof a tyrannical governor.
Against the Son of God They showed their hate as they should not have done Had they not harkened to the behests of the devil.
He awaited in quiet 2910 The behests from on high and he hailed the angel.
They all were faithful vassals and gave assent thereto; The behests of their great captain it behooved them all to do.
And, moreover, all the others on their behests shall wait.
But how shall they make thee their judge, since they possess already the Law, in which are the behestsof God, and have not obeyed it?
Of old sent we Moses with our signs and with incontestable power to Pharaoh, and to his nobles-who followed the behests of Pharaoh, and, unrighteous were Pharaoh's behests.
The bondmen, too, who, even in matters of religion, were compelled to obey the behests of their masters, embraced the religion of their lords.
Thus addressed by his brother, Lakshmana ever attentive to the behests and welfare of his superiors, set out taking with him his handsome bow with string and arrows.
He, the ruler of the world, was conquered, and delighted to obey the behests of the victor, because he felt that she before whom he bowed was his own obedient slave.
You are a sage; I, merely mindful of the behests of duty, administer my office.
Borne by his well-broken steeds, endued with the speed of Garuda or the Wind, and thoroughly obedient to the behests of him who held their reins, he quickly checked the heir of Asmaka.
I am not actuated by earthly motives, but I must obey the behests of the spirits.
The hour has come in which will be determined whether the immortal spirit controls the mortal body, compelling it to obey its behests in spite of time and space.
The wisdom of the Stoic was a dogged submission to the arbitrary behests of one; that of the Epicurean an advantage snatched by more or less dexterous management from the equal tyranny of the other.
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The forehead was intellectual, and weighty enough to make it no wonder if the slight frame grew nervous and irritable in carrying out the behests of the brain hidden there.
He is represented as a man of marked piety and learning, but he would have been unfitted to fill an office under the English crown had he allowed any scruples of conscience to stand between him and the behests of his royal master.
The point of contact between the pure divine will and the material creatures which obey its behests is ever wrapped in darkness, whether these be the settled ordinances which men call nature, or the less common which the Bible calls miracle.
The Spanish Bourbons had been the Emperor's most obsequious and useful allies, obeying his behests without a question: for their degradation there was no plea either of expediency or of a right secured by conquest.
The vassal princes of the Rhine Confederacy had received the imperial behests concerning new levies.
The actions of Yriarte, of course, depended on the secret behests of Godoy.
He concludes, however, by saying it is the duty of subordinate generals in the field to submit in all humility to the behests of their superiors comfortably quartered in Richmond.
They are ladies of the first standing, highly accomplished, and of ample fortune, but are ready to suffer death rather than submit to the behests of a petty tyrant.
At once he ordered his troops to carry out the behests of the Powers; and after some fighting, Dervish Pasha drove the Albanians out of Dulcigno, and surrendered it to the Montenegrins (Nov.
The gentle reminder was a bomb, and Orsini paid the death penalty, but not without leaving a letter with certain behests which were soon complied with.
In the very nature of things he could not live many years, being then much beyond three-score: it would therefore become me to follow his behests while he lived, and study my own inclinations when he was dead.
Tis a pity, but we must do the king’s behests first of all.
Now, therefore, let us obey thebehests of night, and prepare our suppers.
Now, however, let us obey the behests of night and get our suppers, but let the sentinels every man of them camp by the trench that is without the wall.
Let us for this day cease fighting; hereafter we will fight anew till heaven decide between us, and give victory to one or to the other; night is now falling, and the behests of night may not be well gainsaid.
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