Nor might his hearers fancy that, as respectable New England Puritans, they had no personal interest in the question.
Roman Catholic archbishops at the present day can exhort their hearers to put their faith in a silly story of a vision, on the express ground that the popularity of the belief amongst Catholics proves its Divine origin.
But if ever he warms into something like eloquence, it is when he is endeavouring to force upon the imaginations of his hearers the horrors of their position.
To this particular self-examination he then leads his hearers in order that they may not take refuge in generalities, but that each man may examine himself.
The satisfaction of finding in what they would call poetry a host of local allusions about which there was no ambiguity, which they understood like their ABC, would rouse the first hearers to noisy enthusiasm.
One never brings the full effectiveness of a story to bear on his hearers unless he himself enters fully into its appreciation, and moves himself while stirring the emotions of those who listen.
He made his hearers think for the truth they reached, and so presented each truth that its application to some immediate problem or need could not be escaped.
And with this simple, direct, psychological, homely mode of approach to great themes Jesus made his hearers understand vital lessons, and at the same time showed them how to apply the lessons to their own lives.
He always met his hearers on the plane of their own lives.
Nevertheless, the warning note in his voice brought his hearers running after him.
His proof seemed good so far as it went, but it did not go far, and he believed it all too likely that his hearers still considered him an accomplice, at the best.
She concluded by asking her hearers to go his bail.
The South itself seems to have become alarmed at its own scarecrow, and speakers there are beginning to assure their hearersthat the election of Mr. Lincoln will do them no harm.
Even a speaker in Congress addresses his real hearers through the reporters and the post-office.
I almost always suffered much in church from a feeling of disunion with the hearers and dissent from the preacher; but to-day, more than ever before, the services jarred upon me from their grateful and joyful tone.
He has the most exquisite taste, and freshens the souls of his hearers with ever new beauty.
My own hearers were all satisfied with my doctrine, but the committee men looked sour, yet let me alone.
Now not only the common multitude of the hearers of the gospel are in hazard of this, but even God’s own children, who have believed in him.
This is the woful practical use that the generality of hearers make of the free intimation of pardon, and forgiveness of sin, and delivery from wrath.
The application of the word to the hearts of hearers by preaching, and the application of your hearts again to the word by meditation, these two meeting together, and striking one upon another, will yield fire.
He strikes the key-note, and expects his hearers to make out the melody.
Unless one, in reading aloud, exhibits the grouping by voice-inflection, his hearers may not comprehend the meaning conveyed by the grouping.
From these words all the hearersconcluded that he must be a madman, and began to laugh heartily, and their laughter acted like gunpowder on Don Quixote's fury, for drawing his sword without another word he made a rush at the stand.
My shift is long, for I play Friar Tuck; Wherein, if Skelton have but any luck, He'll thank his hearers oft with many a duck.
And some of them could say by heart To make the hearers glad.
These passages show that Barrow had read the Novum Organon in a careful and intelligent manner, and presumed his Cambridge hearersto be acquainted with the work.
To teach his hearers the great first cause was his most careful and earnest task.
Both treat of deep truths, and in a phraseology that sounds uncommon--the one because his hearers were intellectual Greeks, the other because he is professedly treating of the very highest points of the spiritual life.
Her hearers could not help feeling convinced by her earnestness.
The Conferences at St. Barbe were listened to by a most attentive auditory of this class, and his power over his hearers was large and increasing.
Tis for your glory, when your hearers own Your learning matchless, but the sense unknown.
There are diversities of gifts among hearers as well as among preachers; and when the gifts of the pulpit meet the corresponding graces in the pew, you need not wonder that they recognise and delight in one another.
But he soon captured and carried his hearers with him, as is indicated by the exclamations of approval on the part of the audience which were incorporated in the verbatim report of the speech in the London Times.
But all that the oratory can do of value to the community is to enable the man thus to explain himself; if it enables the orator to persuade his hearers to put false values on things, it merely makes him a power for mischief.
Epictetus addressed himself to hishearers in a continuous discourse and in a familiar and simple manner.
In him we live and move and are," said St. Paul to the Athenians; and to show his hearers that this was no new doctrine, he quoted the Greek poets.
Whether, in the introduction of all this matter, he followed a set and conscious purpose of his own mind, or whether he only fed the appetite of his hearers with what he found to be agreeable to them, is little material to the question.
It is quite at variance with his own spirit, and the spirit of his age, to suppose that this purpose was merely to flatter the vanity of hearers by wholesale fiction.
If, indeed, we advance so far as to the conviction that his hearers believed him to be reciting historically, the main question may speedily be decided.
They say not one word about Scripture concerning which their hearers know nothing.
He does not dwell on that topic too long, because it is never well for an orator who wishes to rouse his hearers to enthusiasm to dwell too long or too openly upon merely selfish consideration.
He was not what man regarded as a powerful, but he was a ready speaker, and one who carried his hearers away by the rapt intense earnestness of his manner.
It misrepresents what St. Paul meant and what his hearers understood him to mean.
But each one of her hearers knew better than to interrupt by word or look the possible continuance of her revelations.
Ferguson's hearers was excited to the highest pitch when he made known to them, in detail, the preparations for his own journey.
Our dazzling narrator persuaded his hearers that, after this trip, many others still more wonderful would be undertaken.
It was all no doubt a mere restatement--though an admirably lucid and forcible restatement--of doctrine with which his hearers had long been familiar.
Lord Farnham, as a delegate from Cavan, made a speech at the adjourned meeting on the 12th which filled his hearers with admiration.
Dane was conscious that to each of the four hearershis words had come with the effect of a shock.
Her voluble tongue discussed times past, present, and to come, and very pointedly she gave her hearers to understand that no condolences were necessary on the score of poverty.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hearers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
