He could not repel the divine voice, whether it spake to his consciousness or was revealed to him by divinely commissioned prophets, without the certainty of divine chastisement.

I was regularly commissioned in the army of the Confederate States, but I do not really recollect that that oath was required.

Bacon, at the head of his army, duly commissioned, was marching against the Indians.

" A minister thus specially commissioned it was expected would have proved the instrument of restoring mutual confidence between the two Republics.

Investigations conducted by any examining commission whatsoever, can never dispose of the irrefutable fact that German troops were forced by Belgium's native population to take defensive measures in the interests of self-preservation.

He was afterward commissioned as lieutenant, rose to the rank of captain, and later had the brevet of major.

It turned out after, that the first occasion on which I had been mysteriously commissioned to him with a message which I did not understand, and which for that time he did not understand, was the evening of the day on which he had received the dead man's letter, appealing to himto him, a man whom he had wrongedon behalf of the child who was about to be left friendless in the world.

Although illustrations of the Hindu epic, the Mahabharata, were rarely commissioned by Hindu patrons, the gigantic text possessed a unique appeal to Indian minds and for this reason the Mughal emperor, Akbar, chose it for translation into Persian.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: With a view the better to adapt to the public service the volunteer force contemplated by the act passed on the 6th day of February, I recommend to the consideration of Congress the expediency of making the requisite provision for the officers thereof being commissioned by the authority of the United States.

He merely commissioned me to ask for your permission to take a photograph of it.

The two sovereigns had spent three days there, and Charles V., on separating from the King of England, had commissioned him to regulate, as arbiter, all difficulties that might arise between himself and the King of France.

The number of his disciples, whom he doubtless commissioned as evangelists, must have been very large.

As they are more secluded from easy recourse to national judicature, they must be more extensively commissioned to pass judgment on each other.

Heretofore, whenever he went to the States he was commissioned by that gentleman's family, to purchase a long list of expensive articles, which the poor colonists were seldom able to buy; and he generally returned to them richly laden with goods, purchased with, money given to the poor, sick, and destitute in the colony.