It is pity that his letter to the doctors of Sorbonne is irrecoverably lost; for certain it is, he wrote to them from the midst of the Indies, to engage them to come, and preach the gospel.
In order to engage them to a passive neutrality, the Irish pretended to distinguish between the British nations; and, claiming friendship and consanguinity with the Scots, extended not over them the fury of their massacres.
They profess allegiance to the King, let us engage them by every tye to render that allegiance inviolable.
On the first day of May he discovered them at anchor in Bantry-bay, and stood in to engage them, though they were greatly superior to him in number.
The French king consented to a renewal of the negotiations at the Hague; but in the meantime tampered with the Dutch deputies, to engage them in a separate treaty.
Did you offer to engage them to fish for you for the whole season?
We engage themfor an annual fee,-that is to say, a fee for three months in summer, or for summer and harvest.
It is a mixed crew; we never ask whose property they are on when we engage them.
Sueur to the Chactaws, to engage them on our side against the Natchez; in which he succeeded without any difficulty.
To the Rhodians, also, an embassy was sent, to engage them to contribute their share towards carrying on the war.
The following day, at sun-rise, they drew up their ships towards the open sea, as for a regular naval battle, and with the expectation that the Romans would come out to engage them.
In the meantime the Peloponnesians, as the Athenians did not come out to engage them, broke up from Acharnae and ravaged some of the demes between Mount Parnes and Brilessus.
The Athenians, finding that the enemy no longer offered to engage them, stripped his dead and took up their own and immediately set up a trophy.
I am sensible", he added, "that no artifices will be left unessayed to engage them against us.
I submit to Congress whether it would not be better immediately to engage them on our side.
Alcibiades divided his army so as to engage themboth at once, and not only forced Pharnabazus to a dishonorable flight, but defeated Hippocrates, and killed him and a number of the soldiers with him.
Agesilaus meanwhile, considering that the horse had outridden the foot, but that he himself had the whole body of his own army entire, made haste to engage them.
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