Giving to Nikias, however, for the present, full credit for the wisdom of his dissuasive counsel and his skepticism about the reports from Egesta, we cannot but notice the opposite quality in Alkibiadês.
As a dissuasive and warning counsellor, he took a right view of it; but in that capacity he could not carry the people along with him.
The Second Part of Baillie's own Dissuasive from the Errors of the Time, published just as he was leaving London (Dec.
In one part of this Dissuasive from Popery, having been reproached with some inconsistency, he has no scruple to avow that in a former work he had employed weak arguments for a laudable purpose.
But are there no dissuasive arguments to lay before such, to prevent their future misery?
The sense of that has obliged me to make this discourse for a dissuasive against the world's lusts, and an invitation to take up the daily cross of Christ as the way left us by him to blessedness.
There was no dissuasivewould do; Uriah must be put upon a desperate service, where it was great odds if he survived it.
The only one of these in my possession is his Dissuasive from taking the Goods and Livings of the Church.
A Dissuasive from taking the Goods and Livings of the Church, &c.
It was to this Sir Christopher Hatton, that Sir Everard's father had dedicated his book A Dissuasivefrom taking away the Livings of the Church.
Mr. Marshall also quotes a familiar allusion to it by Jeremy Taylor (Dissuasive from Popery, 1667).
Did we see clearly the certain bearings and consequences of actions, we should need no stronger dissuasive from all evil, no more cogent motive to every form of virtue.
Dear brethren, surely such a dissuasive from evil, and such a persuasive to good, is mightier than all abstractions about duty and conscience and right, and the like.
A Tender Motive, a dissuasive from sin, a persuasive to yielding and to righteousness.
Against bare legs a cricket bat is a highly dissuasive argument.
From a safe distance on the running-board, he flourished this, whooping the while in a shrill and dissuasive manner.
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