All three of his books, and especially the Opus Majus, were written at the command of the Pope, and were highly praised by the Pontiff himself and by those who read them in Rome.
A friend and fellow student at Paris became Pope Clement, and his command was the primary cause of the composition of Bacon's great works.
Nay, such is the Nemesis of pride, the barbers came to command the position.
A long-drawn, hollow, echoing hail came from a distance out of the darkness, and it was repeated again and again, before he could command himself and reply.
I'm in command now, and I shall let every poor fellow have ten or a dozen hours' good sleep, and I am so utterly done up that I shall take the same amount myself.
But in a few moments this passed off, for he made a desperate effort to command himself, knowing full well that if he did not act his case was hopeless.
We're all right now in our bit of a fort, but it seems queer to be in command of a ship that will not--Hah!
This was finally settled, and a crew selected for the lugger under one or other of the passengers, each taking the command for a week.
He might, perhaps, command her to keep her mouth shut from gentlemen's Christian names, all except his own.
And I shall be bitten if I stop here a minute longer; I'm gone; I can neither command nor influence.
The title entitles you to the command of half my possessions.
He only is the true chemist or engineer who, by first learning how to obey the generic tendency of natural laws, is able to command them to the fulfilment of his individual purposes; no other method will succeed.
Lose this idea, and regard God as a merely external Creator who may indeed command us, or even sometimes be moved by our cries and entreaties, and we have lost the root of Livingness and with it all possibility of growth or of liberty.
It is the law that we can command the powers of the universal for our own purposes only in proportion as we first realise and obey their generic character.
Thornburg's command was nearly wiped out by Utes in 1879, it was Captain F.
This had already been demonstrated in Louisiana by colored regiments under the command of General Godfrey Weitzel in the attack upon Port Hudson on May 27 of the same year.
Soon after the Porpoise came in, and I joined my old craft, giving up my command of the captured slaver rather reluctantly.
He had marched with Sherman to the sea, had fought well at Gettysburg, and had but a year before been assigned to the command of the Department of Tennessee.
It was thought that there would be a severe strain upon discipline when a colored officer rose to the rank of captain and to the command of white officers.
In several emergencies where troops or companies lost their white officers, the senior sergeants took command and handled their men in a faultless manner, notably in the Tenth Cavalry.
This feat was the more remarkable because Major Henry's command had just completed a march of more than one hundred miles in twenty-four hours.
These changes may either be made at the command of the master, or, as we before proposed, of one or more children acting as officers to direct these geometrical movements.
Did Jesus command this ordinance to be observed by his people?
At a command given by the petty officer the pole is lifted up, shoved back in its socket, and the king-pin dropped into place.
The men then jump back to the wheels at each side, and at another command the apparatus is pushed out into the yard.
While I was attending the morning drill of the Central Fire Station at Dresden, in Saxony, the captain in command told me that the city had, on an average, about six alarms of fire a week.
Elk come next, and the lucky hungry hunter who has bagged his "six-point" buck would need more space than at my command to tell how he did it.
Tulan jumped up and strode around the command room, while Jezef and the staff watched him silently.
Tulan would have traded everything he could command to hear a word of Jezef or the family, but Teyr wasn't concerned with individuals and he didn't ask.
It was good to be winding up here in his own command room, where he'd lived his moments of triumph.
He let it out and looked around the silent command room, meeting the intent eyes of his staff.
As he gave this command he rose and slowly advanced toward the dory, keeping his gun levelled from his shoulder.
Fortunately for all concerned, his command was obeyed.
For the moment he returned to his post of command he sat down to write a letter to my aunts, telling them what he had done and how to find the documents.
Perry hesitated, but unable any longer to tolerate the eyes of the curious crowd he muttered a command and the camel moved carefully from the room on its four legs.
Saying nothing to Roscoe, he left the house one night and proceeded by train to Camp Mosby, in South Carolina, where he was to command an infantry brigade.
After a few minutes' weary waiting which seemed endless to Marguerite, there came a short word of command from within and she was roughly pushed forward into the room by one of the men.
Sir Percy pleasantly, "what a wonderful command you have of our language.
All the while that the young girl spoke in a voice half-choked with sobs, Marguerite tried with all the physical and mental will at her command to drag her out of the room and thus to put a summary ending to this unpleasant scene.
A halt was ordered at this point: and the man in command of the little party pushed the door open and walked in.
The sword is yours to command until you have used it against my unworthy person.
There was no difficulty in that, and a man of his type and importance would always have unlimited means and money at his command to accomplish any journey he might desire to undertake.
At a word ofcommand from him, two more soldiers now entered the room and placed themselves one on each side of Marguerite, who, knowing that resistance was useless, had already risen and was prepared to go.
Putting aside the question of money, wherein I pray you to command my assistance, what can I do to be of useful service to you?
Chauvelin having reached the door, opened it noiselessly, and to the sergeant in command of his bodyguard who stood at attention outside, he whispered hurriedly: "The prisoner from No.
He wanted room, space, air, the force and intelligence of the entire town at his command for the one capture which meant life and revenge to him.
When he awoke he began exactly where he had left off, only this time turning his head slightly to the right, and sending his command toward the kitchen wing.
He listened with bulging eyes and sagging jaw to her accounts of the latest murders and obeyed her slightest command with a briskness that would have amazed the old Colonel.
At Thornwood Miss Lady, who had been left in command of a sinking ship, struggled heroically to bring it into port.
I had got much too fond of the society of Peter Mason, and all the time I could command I spent with him.
I begged Andrew to put the saddle on for me, as I should then have more command of Missy.
But what was my horror to find her command enforced by the pursuing bark of her prime minister.
He complained and negotiated, but obtaining no satisfaction, called out an army composed of Skipetars of Toxid, all Islamites, and gave the command to his brother Sepher, Bey of Avlone.
But depart this instant without a word, and dare not to trouble me again; I have other means of destruction at command besides gunpowder.
Life is nothing to me, remember that; but your mountains may yet at my command become the tomb of your wives and children.
Pacho Bey was named pacha of Janina and Delvino on condition of subduing them, and was placed in command of the whole expedition.
They were his wife Zaidee, and his brother Sepher, who had been in command during the war just terminated.
O Thou, who hast at Thy command The hearts of all men in Thy hand!
O Thou, the primal fount of life and peace, Who shedd'st Thy breathing quiet all around, In mecommand that pain and conflict cease, And tune to music every jarring sound.
One army of the living God, To His command we bow; Part of the host have crossed the flood And part are crossing now.
O Thou, at whose divine command Good seed is sown in every land, Thy holy spirit now impart, And for Thy word prepare each heart!
Not under his command were the 1,500 defenders of Angaur.
General Smith, from his forward command post was in communication with all three regimental commanders.
The second imponderable facing the Marines was the plan developed by Colonel Kunio Nakagawa, the officer who was to command the force on Peleliu, and his superior, Lieutenant General Sadae Inoue, back on Koror.
Major General Geiger was directed to turn over command to Major General Mueller, whose 81st Division was now directed to relieve the 1st Marine Division, to mop up, and to garrison Peleliu, as long planned.
He took command of the division for the Cape Gloucester operation.
Gustafson, in 2/5’s forward command post mid-way across the airfield, had his tank platoon close at hand.
Walt, to take command of 3/5 and to redeploy so as to close the gap between 5th and 7th Marines.
He is a graduate of the Army’s Command and General Staff College.
Shofner’s 3/5 was there, as was Harris’ 5th Marines command post.
At this point, the 5th Marines command asked, again, for point-blank artillery.
General Rupertus began to make plans to land himself and the main elements of his command group.
One was Major Holzungen, of the Baden army, who was in command of the patrol that had arrested him, or rather picked him up, dying, and carried him to the hospital.
Then the midshipman, a lad of sixteen, looking strangely mature and dignified in his uniform and sword, came aboard to take command of the captured sealer.
It was their right to collect fares in advance, and who was he to command them to take a passenger and collect fare at the journey's end?
But his wide reading, worldly experience, and extraordinary powers of observation and correlation, enabled him to commandfirst prize.
Alf acknowledged the justice of his remarks, but suggested that while he could not command he might persuade.
Both men, snatching up automatic rifles, ran down to where their fire could command the threatened door.
Few, however, could at the time command equanimity enough to appreciate the laughter-moving side of those pictures and see where the joke came in.
A swivel cannon carrying a one pound ball was discovered, also, in a position to command the town, although it is not known that it was used during the skirmish.
At that time there was no injunction on the name of Gallaher to "let her go," and, if there had been ten thousand orders to that effect, Will was not the boy to obey any command that militated against humanity.
If the tale of the correspondent is true in every respect, Harper's Ferry may be regarded as Saint Brandan's own child--the heir to his fame on earth and the best entitled to all the influence which he may command in Heaven.
It was then under the command of General Miles, a veteran of the regular United States army.
The man who thus deprived the place of a valuable citizen was an old bummer belonging to a Pennsylvania regiment, who had straggled from his command in Pleasant Valley and had become drunk, celebrating the "glorious Fourth" at Sandy Hook.
General Harper, like many of inferior grade, was removed and Colonel Jackson was put in command of the place.
My command had left me behind for two days of hospital service at Cross Keys.
Clifford Stanton rose heavily from his chair and stood trembling as though in an overpowering rage, and visibly struggling for his command of mind and tongue.
There was nothing to be done but to take command and sell his life along with theirs as dearly as possible.
The officers in commandof the troops will know that you are empowered to act for all parties.
Their officers ran forward, shouting the superfluous command for them to halt, and ordering them to carry the wounded men back to the cars.
Why they had been kept in the same command I do not know.
They had taken their arms at a word of command and had come up here to uphold the arm of the State.
He would have taken the place of leadership and command among them which he had for months been taking in the fight against the railroad.
Equality--damn it, I suppose you'll take the command of the ship.
I am afraid he has too great a command of money ever to be fond of the ship; it is the ruin of a junior officer to be so lavishly supplied.
Captain Wilson had lost so many officers that he knew not whom to send: indeed, now he was no longer in command of the Harpy, and there was but one lieutenant and no master or master's mate.
In two days they arrived at Mahon, and found the Aurora already there, in the command of Captain Wilson.
The Admiral informed Captain Wilson that he must detain the Aurora until the arrival of another frigate, hourly expected, and then she would be sent down to Mahon for him to take the command of her.
He had at least ten instances to bring forward of bloody actions, in which the captain and all the commissioned officers had been killed or wounded and the command of the ship had devolved upon the gunner.
Mr Asper was in the sick list, so Mr Smallsole the master had the command of the expedition.
Mr Sawbridge was raised to the rank of commander, and appointed to the command of the Harpy.
The gunner had the charge of one cutter, and our hero had the command of the other.
A lawfulcommand means an order established by law; now where is that law?
In the epilogue to these laws he states that by the command of Shamash, the judge supreme of heaven and earth, he has set them up that judgment may shine in the land.
It is certainly important enough to command the best experience, the ripest scholarship, and the most unselfish devotion.
If the language of modern philosophy and psychology had been at the command of these great religious teachers, it would have but obscured the great truths.
Its human as well as its divine qualities command our interest and attention.
Sidenote: Attitude of the later Church, and especially Puritanism] Throughout the Middle Ages and in the eyes of the Protestant reformers the two great divisions of the Bible continued to command equal respect and attention.
