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1 But there was one condition imposed on them by God: obedience to His word.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManBy James Joyce ContextHighlight In Chapter 3
2 He would be very quiet and obedient: and he wished that he could do something kind for him to show him that he was not proud.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManBy James Joyce ContextHighlight In Chapter 1
3 This spirit of quarrelsome comradeship which he had observed lately in his rival had not seduced Stephen from his habits of quiet obedience.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManBy James Joyce ContextHighlight In Chapter 2
4 The formula which he wrote obediently on the sheet of paper, the coiling and uncoiling calculations of the professor, the spectre-like symbols of force and velocity fascinated and jaded Stephen's mind.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManBy James Joyce ContextHighlight In Chapter 5
5 He had never once disobeyed or allowed turbulent companions to seduce him from his habit of quiet obedience; and, even when he doubted some statement of a master, he had never presumed to doubt openly.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManBy James Joyce ContextHighlight In Chapter 4
6 Whatsoever of thought or of feeling came to him from England or by way of English culture his mind stood armed against in obedience to a password; and of the world that lay beyond England he knew only the foreign legion of France in which he spoke of serving.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManBy James Joyce ContextHighlight In Chapter 5
7 Then he wondered at the vagueness of his wonder, at the remoteness of his own soul from what he had hitherto imagined her sanctuary, at the frail hold which so many years of order and obedience had of him when once a definite and irrevocable act of his threatened to end for ever, in time and in eternity, his freedom.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManBy James Joyce ContextHighlight In Chapter 4