Whoso obeys the Son of God and Mary-- He is a sunflash lighting up the moor, He is a dais on the Heavenly Floor, A pure and very precious reliquary.
A man may possibly do a wrong thing when he obeys conscience; he is certainly wrong when he acts contrary to conscience.
He is no longer a free man; he is uneasy and restless, and cannot settle to his work until he obeys the craving he has created.
The ship no longer obeys her helm, and lies in the trough of the sea swept by every wave and driven by every wind.
A man takes counsel with his wife; he obeys his mother: he obeys her long after she has ceased to live, and the ideas he has received from her become principles even stronger than his passions.
The rig is simplicity itself: there is a man to every rope that vitally communicates with anything: and the most highly trained shifting-ballast in the world, spread low between the thwarts, obeys the wave of the hand.
By organizing laughter, comedy accepts social life as a natural environment, it even obeys an impulse of social life.
He believes in the State, obeys the Laws, performs his duties as a citizen.
With no more provisions sent over we'll see who obeys me!
For the peculiarity of a popular insurrection is that nobody obeys anybody; the bad passions are free as well as the generous ones; heroes are unable to restrain assassins.
The Auvergne regiment has driven away its officers and forms a separate society, whichobeys no one.
A corporal of the guard receives and obeys orders from none but noncommissioned officers of the guard senior to himself, the officers of the guard, the officer of the day, and the commanding officer.
When in ranks the question of what a private should do is simple--he obeys any command that is given.
From whom can we rather hope for a grateful return of a kindness than from a man who strictlyobeys the laws?
Is it not likewise true," continued Socrates, "that he who obeys these ordinances does justly, and that he obeys them not does unjustly?
Indefinite variation is indiscriminate variation in all directions around a mean, variation which obeys what we may perhaps call the law of chance.
His eyes shot fire as he shouted: "You did right, Steinmetz, and I am glad there is one man in the castle who obeys the master of it unquestioning.
A good government: where the people obey their king and the king obeys the law'--Solon.
They thought it no disparagement to their royalty to be bound by them,--like unto God, who himself obeys the laws he has preordained.
Oh, musician," replied the little hare, "I will obey thee as a scholar obeys his master.
Oh, musician," then said the fox, "I will obey thee as a scholar obeys his master.
Oh, musician," said the wolf, "I will obey thee as a scholar obeys his master.
Because the appetitive faculty obeys the reason, not blindly, but with a certain power of opposition; wherefore the Philosopher says (Polit.
That which obeys reason is twofold, the concupiscible and the irascible," which belong to the sensitive appetite.
For the body obeys the soul blindly without any contradiction, in those things in which it has a natural aptitude to be moved by the soul: whence the Philosopher says (Polit.
But God is in the world in such a way, that everything in the world obeys His command.
Further, Law does not profit a man unless he obeys it.
But he that obeys the law, merely through fear of being punished, is not good: because "although a good deed may be done through servile fear, i.
But the very fact that a man obeys a law is due to his being good.
But in so far as the sensitive appetite obeys reason, good and evil of reason are no longer accidentally in the passions of the appetite, but essentially.
It is not always through perfect goodness of virtue that oneobeys the law, but sometimes it is through fear of punishment, and sometimes from the mere dictates of reason, which is a beginning of virtue, as stated above (Q.
But the will moves the sensitive appetite, inasmuch as the sensitive appetite obeys the reason.
For the sensitive appetite can be the subject of virtue, in so far as it obeys reason.
It is subject to the will, in so far as the lower appetite obeys reason; wherefore man is able to drive fear away.
Further, corporeal matter obeys God alone, to the effect of formal transmutation, as was shown in the First Part (Q.
For no man is justified unless heobeys God's law, according to Heb.
Further, "Whatever obeys reason partakes somewhat of reason," as stated in Ethic.
Fortunately the barque well obeysher helm, and the young officers contrive to set storm-stay and trysail, thus helping to hold her steady.
But he neither obeys them, nor gives back response.
No person who loves the Lord Jesus Christ, and obeys the gospel of God our Savior, ought to be deprived of church membership.
No one is taught to expect the reception of that heavenly Monitor and Comforter, as a resident in his heart, till he obeys the gospel.
Better for him to die than outrage these; they are the laws of his very being; he is royal by serving them; in obeying them he obeys his God.
And the free will (proairesis) of good men most of all obeys God's will.
He obeys the musical command with his whole body and becomes more and more perfect in this obedience shown by his muscles.
The child calls, pronouncing the name with a sort of sustained drawl; the child who is called comes forward; then the same thing is done with the other names, and each child obeys as he is called.
Consequently, the growth of the face obeys laws and rhythms differing from those of the cranium, in comparison to which the face is destined to assume very different proportions by the time that the adult age is reached.
The libertarians admit the freedom of the will as one of the noblest of human prerogatives, on which the responsibility for our acts depends; the determinists recognise that the act of volitionobeys certain predetermined causes.
In regard to the volume in a general sense, the cranium in its growth obeys the cerebral rhythm.
Although, as a rule, he docilely obeys the orders given him, it is because he is "afraid of being scolded.
Therefore it is that Woman unwittinglyobeys great Nature's laws.
And we are always of the same opinion, that boy and I; and he obeys me in all things, that boy does; and I think he had better, so he had!
It takes no pattern, it obeys no recognised law; it is like a beautiful creature of a thousand wayward moods, and its voice is like nothing else in the wide world.
He forbids mourning and lamentations as out of place, obeys minutely and cheerily the directions of his executioner, and passes with unaffected dignity to the apprehension of that larger truth for which he had constantly prepared himself.
We must not think this is the only motive; each impostor obeysmotives which are peculiar to himself.
This fact is to be noted, for it contradicts the current belief that the subject obeys the will of the magnetiser: but what follows reveals a phenomenon of vastly different interest.
Macbeth trusts blindly to these promises; further he obeys them, so far as a man can be said to obey an oracle which enjoins no command: he obeys in the sense of relying on them, and making that reliance his ground of action.
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