In his introduction, Alfred explains that he gathered together the laws he found in many " synod-books " and " ordered to be written many of the ones that our forefathers observed — those that pleased me ; and many of the ones that did not please me, I rejected with the advice of my councillors, and commanded them to be observed in a different way.

Papal troops had invaded the Neapolitan kingdom, but Alfonso corrupted the cardinal Giovanni Vitelleschi, who commanded them, and his successes waned.

Mark Antony and Gellius Publicola commanded the right wing of the Antonian fleet, while Marcus Octavius and Marcus Insteius commanded the centre, with Cleopatra's squadron positioned behind them.

One of them said that all the women in the empire would hear that " The King Xerxes commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.

Caius commanded them to take down their scaffolds, that the poor people might see the sport without paying anything.

" He gives the Great Commission: " Therefore go and make disciples of all the nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you ;" Jesus will be with them " to the very end of the age.

Now master of Jezreel, Jehu wrote to the chief men in the capital Samaria, and commanded them to count the heads of all the royal princes of the kingdom.

(" The apostles in the memoirs which have come from them, which are also called gospels, have transmitted that the Lord had commanded ...").

In 1564, Portugal commanded the trade of India, Japan, and China, though their pride was deeply shocked at the supreme indifference with which the Chinese treated them.

They see as giving exclusive instructions about who is to be baptized: " Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you " ( verses 19-20, NKJV ).

In early June 1781, Cornwallis dispatched a 250-man cavalry force commanded by Banastre Tarleton on a secret expedition to capture Governor Jefferson and members of the Assembly at Monticello but Jack Jouett of the Virginia militia, thwarted the British plan by warning them.

Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.

:" I have been requested by one of my oldest and best friends in the Company's service to introduce to your and kind offices John Campbell of the Ship Scotia which vessel he has commanded since she was launched, but owing to change of owners and other he is now out of employ with a numerous family and very slender means to provide for them.

" I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandment unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.

I was very sorry at this in my mind, and went with tears in my eyes to Titus, and told him of them ; so he immediately commanded them to be taken down, and to have the greatest care taken of them, in order to their recovery ; yet two of them died under the physician's hands, while the third recovered.

He was indiscreet enough to claim the sympathy of Gregory VII, who commanded him to acknowledge his errors and to pursue them no further.

Meanwhile the British Eighth Army, commanded by General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, simultaneously pushed them westward, effectively squeezing the Germans and Italians into a smaller and smaller portion of Tunisia and out of North Africa altogether by mid-May.

In the East he was commanded to eat with the other monks.

A passage from this book reading " For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat ", ( 2 Thess.

And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

With no sun, the world was totally black and in his anger, Tezcatlipoca commanded his jaguars to eat all the people.

The Torah commanded the Israelites on first entering Canaan to celebrate the event with a ceremony of blessings and cursings respectively on Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal, The masoretic text of the Tanakh says the Israelites later built an altar on Mount Ebal, constructed from natural ( rather than cut ) stones, to place stones there and whiten them with lime, to make peace offerings on the altar, eat there, and write the words of this law on the stone.

The discussion of shechita ( kosher slaughter ) in Deuteronomy 12 states " you shall kill of your herd and of your flock which God Lord has given you, as I have commanded you ," yet the only earlier commandment given by the Torah is " you shall not eat the blood.

Adam, with his fellow-laborer Eve, began to “ till the earth, and to have dominion over all the beasts of the field, and to eat his bread by the sweat of his brow .” Likewise Eve fulfilled the commission she had received in the Garden of Eden and “ bare … sons and daughters, and they began to replenish the earth .” Moreover, “ Adam was obedient to the commandments of the Lord ” to “ offer the firstlings of their flocks ” for “ many days ,” despite the fact that he did not yet fully understand the reason why he had been thus commanded.

The Wizards were commanded to aid Men, Elves, and Dwarves, but only through counsel ; it was forbidden to use force to dominate them — an injunction Saruman disregarded.

Three days later the king commanded the registration of the articles in all the schools and faculties of theology ; no one could be admitted to degrees in theology without having maintained this doctrine in one of his theses and it was forbidden to write anything against them.

Eisenmenger claimed that Jews believed that they were forbidden to mention names of false gods and instead were commanded to change and defame them and did so with Jesus ' name as they considered him a false god.

It was forbidden to look upon images ( Tosefta to Talmud Shabbat ( Talmud ) 17. 1 ), and even thinking of idolatrous worship was prohibited ( Talmud Berakhot 12b ); if one saw a place where an idol had once stood, he was commanded to utter a special prayer ( Talmud Ber.

In 1577, the Formula of Concord was crafted to settle the question of the nature of genuine adiaphora, which it defined as church rites that are "... neither commanded nor forbidden in the Word of God.

Three of his sermons were printed ; the first of these, ‘ Labour forbidden and commanded ’ ( London, 1635, 4to ), was preached at St. Paul's Cross on 23 September 1634.

Joffre was selected to command despite never having commanded an Army, even on paper, and " having no knowledge whatever of General Staff work.

Strucker had placed the hero Abner Jenkins of the Thunderbolts into his debt by funding his team ( an irony given how the Thunderbolts, when commanded by Baron Zemo, used their knowledge of the HYDRA organization to inflict severe damage to HYDRA in order to build up their reputation as heroes ), and pit the team against threats he had helped fund, including the Wrecking Crew, Fathom Five, and the Great Game.

The Court ruled, "… a process patent in the chemical field, which has not been developed and pointed to the degree of specific utility, creates a monopoly of knowledge which should be granted only if clearly commanded by the statute.

: Their sachems cannot all be called kings, but only some few of them, to whom the rest resort for protection and pay homage unto them ; neither may they war without their knowledge and approbation ; yet to be commanded by the greater, as occasion serveth.

Chile developed a good export economy, including the export of fruits and vegetables to the northern hemisphere when they were out of season, and commanded high prices.

The practice of withholding the cup from the laity was confirmed ( twenty-first session ) as one which the Church Fathers had commanded for good and sufficient reasons ; yet in certain cases the Pope was made the supreme arbiter as to whether the rule should be strictly maintained.

One of the oldest is Dublin Castle, which was first founded as a major defensive work on the orders of King John of England in 1204, shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169, when it was commanded that a castle be built with strong walls and good ditches for the defence of the city, the administration of justice, and the protection of the King ’ s treasure.

Once free, he was a key part of an effort to forge stronger ties between the UDA / UFF and the LVF, a small breakaway faction of the UVF founded in 1996 by the charismatic Billy Wright and following his killing, commanded by Mark " Swinger " Fulton, with whom Adair was on good terms.

Caffarelli's men halted the Russian assaults and permitted Murat to send two cuirassier divisions ( one commanded by d ' Hautpoul and the other one by Nansouty ) into the fray to finish off the Russian cavalry for good.

James's forces – once again commanded by Lord Feversham – moved to Salisbury, but few of its senior officers were eager to fight – even Princess Anne wrote to William to wish him " good success in this so just an undertaking.

Dublin Castle was first founded as a major defensive work by Meiler Fitzhenry on the orders of King John of England in 1204, some time after the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169, when it was commanded that a castle be built with strong walls and good ditches for the defence of the city, the administration of justice, and the protection of the King ’ s treasure.

A French rear guard commanded by Marshal Oudinot, bitterly held off the Austrians until 6: 00 p. m., before falling back in good order and blowing the bridge over the Aube River behind them.

In the Peninsula Campaign of 1862, Hooker commanded the 2nd Division of the III Corps and made a good name for himself as a combat leader who handled himself well and aggressively sought out the key points on battlefields.

" In a letter to the Pope defending himself he stated that " This free will is in all good works always assisted by divine help ," and in an accompanying confession of faith, " Free-will we do so own, as to say that we always stand in need of God ’ s help ," However, he affirmed that " We do also abhor the blasphemy of those who say that any impossible thing is commanded to man by God ; or that the commandments of God cannot be performed by any one man " ( which the pope approved of upon receiving the letter ), whereas Augustine famously stated " non possum non peccare " (" It is not possible to not sin ").

Abdullah's relations with the British Captain T. E. Lawrence were not good, and as a result, Lawrence spent most of his time in the Hejaz serving with Abdullah's brother Faisal who commanded the Arab Northern Army.

" commanded the Speaker to leave the Chair, and told them they had sat long enough, unless they had done more good, crying out You are no longer a Parliament, I say you are no Parliament.

However, even with his formally reduced role, he commanded a good deal of moral authority as Father of the Nation.

In 1774, Hamilton commanded the 21st Regiment of Foot in the American War of Independence ; General John Burgoyne said that he " was the whole time engaged and acquitted himself with great honor, activity, and good conduct.

Divine command theory is a meta-ethical theory which proposes that an action's status as morally good is equivalent to whether it is commanded by God.

The theory asserts that good actions are morally good as a result of their being commanded by God, and many religious believers subscribe to some form of divine command theory.

If the first is chosen, it would imply that whatever God commands must be good: even if he commanded someone to inflict suffering, then inflicting suffering must be moral.

It ran along the summit of some rising ground ( about 25 feet higher than the surrounding area ) and therefore commanded good views of the area.

In the " first war " of 1562-63 he commanded the cavalry at the Battle of Dreux, the first major engagement and, unlike both commanders in chief, managed to avoid being captured, and withdrew in good order from the defeat.

At the beginning of 1759 Finck became lieutenant-general, and in this rank commanded a corps at the disastrous battle of Kunersdorf, where he did good service both on the field of battle and ( Frederick having in despair handed over to him the command ) in the rallying of the beaten Prussians.

The last commission gave to the justices of the liberty, power to enquire more fully "... by the oath of good and lawful men of the Liberty of Peterborough, by whom the truth of the matter may be better known and by other ways, means and methods by which they shall or better know, of the treasons ... insurrections ... rebellions, counterfeitings, clippings, wastings, false comings ... murders, felonies, manslaughters ... and many other grave offences mentioned therein which in other counties are only triable by a Judge of Assize, and the Justices are commanded at days appointed for this purpose to make diligent enquiries into and to hear and determine the above mentioned offences.

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