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Disobedience Disorder (See CONFUSION.) Achan defies God’s ban on taking booty. [O.T.: Joshua 7:1] eat forbidden fruit of Tree of Knowledge. [O.T.: Genesis 3:1–7; Br. Lit.: Paradise Lost] despite Creon’s order, she buries Polynices. [Gk. Lit.: Antigone] copyist in Wall Street office; refuses to do anything but copy documents. [Am. Lit.: “Bartleby the Scrivener”] disobeys father’s order to let Siegmund die. [Ger. Opera: Wagner, Valkyrie, Westerman, 237] contravening God, takes spoils from conquered Amalekites. [O.T.: I Samuel 15:17–19]
loses queenship for not submitting to king’s demands. [O.T.: Esther 1:10–22] |
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It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience. The country is more or less familiar with the history of that garrison, particularly with the slaughter by the Sioux of a detachment of eighty-one men and officers--not one escaping--through disobedience of orders by its commander, the brave but reckless Captain Fetterman. Thwackum held, that this was flying in Mr Allworthy's face, who had intended to punish the fellow for his disobedience. |
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