It is clear, too, that his words were so understood by his auditors (Acts xx.
Of course I do, even most persistent and continuous hearers; whom I do not call pupils, but mere passing auditors of philosophers.
But it is worth while inquiring whether in the circumstances of the time there is even a bare possibility that Seneca should ever have been among the readers or the auditors of Paul.
Nor is it needful, or almost possible in these our times, and to such auditors as commonly things are presented, to observe the old state and splendor of dramatic poems, with preservation of any popular delight.
He had promised to tell a recent adventure with an inhabitant of the other world, and when the clock struck midnight he began, while his auditors gathered around him in breathless attention.
Fu-Manchu spoke without the slightest trace of excitement; he assured his auditors of his fidelity to their cause and proposed to prove to them that he enjoyed the complete confidence of the Lady of the Si-Fan.
His auditors were swayed by the magnetic personality of the speaker, as reeds by a breeze; and now I became aware of a curious circumstance.
A few sentences will explain it, for I consider it unnecessary to remind my present auditors of two great events in their respective countries.
Perhaps there are few persons who, being auditors of this speech, would have decided quite so candidly on the superlative by which it was concluded.
Their reputation as speakers as well as their fame as lawyers, together with the throngs of auditors always present, put them on their mettle.
Only a few auditors were present, and these were lawyers[675] who were in Washington to argue other cases.
At no time in this notable session of the Supreme Court was the basement room, where its sittings were now again held, so thronged with auditors as it was when the argument in M'Culloch vs.
These are the "Two Briggs of Ayr," whose midnight conversation was overheard by Burns, while other auditors were aware only of the rush and rumble of the wintry stream among the arches.
The auditors a moment before so fierce, even the Hegumen, gazed at the preacher in a kind of awe; and there was no lessening of effect when his manner underwent a change, his head slightly drooping and his voice plaintive.
The hermit knelt to the preacher, and kissed his hand, sobbing the while; the auditors stared at each other doubtfully; but the Hegumen's time was come.
Batten, and I, did treat theAuditors of the Exchequer, Auditors Wood and Beale, and hither come Sir G.
The soldiers who commonly were there, as auditors and spectators, would have kicked them down stairs; but Harrington's moderation and persuasion hindered them.
James Arderne, then or soon afterwards a divine, with many others, besides antagonists and auditors of note whom I cannot now name.
What is of importance is that he did leave it and that Amabel, knowing it was Frederick, strove to make her auditors believe it was Zabel, who carried the remainder of the money into the woods.
Crime is despicable when it results from cupidity only," she went on, with a deliberateness so hard that the more susceptible of her auditors shuddered.
The auditorsdid a solid job--took them weeks, remember?
During Lent and Advent sermons were preached on Sunday afternoons to the soldiers in the guard-room; and these were attended by many people of the city, as well as by the governor and some of the auditors of the royal Audiencia.
If the governors do not consent to this, the auditors dislike them, and seek means and expedients whereby the worthy persons to whom the said offices and livings are given shall not be received therein.
The auditors interfere with the affairs of the military service, and hinder the governor from performing his duties.
On the contrary, he appeals to his auditors in asserting that the priesthood have ceased to guide the French conscience.
He then deprecates its attempted resuscitation by Schlegel and de Maistre, and, falling back upon the "religious vocation" of France, exhorts hisauditors to work it out in the spirit of his own evangel.
The gentleman appeared to be enumerating all his qualities to his auditors; and, as I have said, the auditors seeming to have great deference for the narrator, they every moment burst into fits of laughter.
The beasts, too, strove his auditors to be, Forgetting their old tyranny.
Dr Jamieson (see his 'Life of Barbour') discovers the poet's name in the list of Auditors of the Exchequer.
Such was the spirit spread through Europe, that simply to mention the name of Christ, or to speak of the city of God, held in captivity by the infidels, melted auditors to tears, and gave birth to transports of enthusiasm.
But if it be in private, where you are the speaker yourself, you must take that way that is most to your own edification (and to others, if you have auditors joining with you).
And, with true savage philosophy, the speaker and his auditors refresh themselves with a huge pinch of snuff.
As he paused, many a deep murmur from hisauditors told that his words had struck home.
To one, at least, of the auditors of this dialogue, the postponement of the expected guest's arrival was not a source of unmixed grief.
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