dictates

Let us hear his voice, admit his claims, and bow to his dictates.

And even now I cannot follow the dictates of my own heart, and of my better judgment.

There is a higher patriotism, to the dictates of which I must respond.

Then if you know all letters, he dictates that which you know?

Then, said the other, you do not learn that which he dictates; but he only who does not know letters learns?

Am I to submit at every turn to the dictates of this man Blood?

I did not have the strength to follow the dictates of my own will; and now, God help me!

It was a point on which the rules of war and the dictates of humanity clashed.

His last resource failing, he was at liberty to follow the dictates of his curiosity.

I respect the fidelity, while I will not follow its dictates.