Crates had really been invited in order to win him over to the Queen's cause; but charming fair-haired Nico had been commissioned by the conspirators to persuade him to sing Arsinoe's praises among his professional associates.
I remember that day well, how I tried to persuade him, and, when he persisted in his intention, besought him to accept from my abundance what he needed.
The Arians took this occasion to persuade him to persecute the orthodox christians, as they assured him that they were friends to the people of Rome.
When he came to the gallows, several monks attended, and did all they could to persuade him to renounce his religion.
Finding all endeavours to persuade him to renounce his faith ineffectual, he was executed according to his sentence, dying cheerfully, and recommending his soul fervently to the Almighty.
So that my opinion is, that we should send some persons to Claudius, to persuade him to lay down the government; and I am ready to be one of your ambassadors.
Out of Herod's fear of this it was that he, by giving Antony a great deal of money, endeavored to persuade him to have Antigonus slain, which if it were once done, he should be free from that fear.
It is not thy only aim to reproach me, when thou usest such words to my son, but thereby to persuade him to plot against me, and get me destroyed by poison.
I had to work pretty hard with Ohto--the old chief--to persuade him to let you come in unharmed.
Understanding something of Terry's weariness of spirit he strove hard to persuade him to spend the evening in the pleasant Club, but was unsuccessful.
I've tried to persuade him to go to different friends who needed servants, but he looked them over and then refused.
When asked to seek the King and endeavor to persuade him to leave, he cheerfully undertook the task and hastened to the royal abode.
He sent Coronel as an envoy to Roldan, to endeavor to persuade him to return to his duty; but the mutineer feared to submit, believing that he had gone too far for forgiveness.
I tried topersuade him to stay on deck, but he would go to his stateroom, and there he stayed for the entire crossing.
She declared she was coming over the next day with her husband and try to persuade him to purchase both of them for her.
Cardinal de Retz vainly tried to persuade him to take the manly part of mediation, that would have been possible to him, at the head of the magistracy and municipality of Paris.
I tried to persuade him to gi'e himsel' up to justice, but it seemed just waste o' breath.
Only promise that you will take my words as I give them; that you will add nothing, nor take away anything; that you will not try to persuade him not to see me.
His other fault is one not common to Frenchmen, the easiness with which women can persuade him, and this often brings him into domestic quarrels.
Madame de Maintenon was dreadfully frightened at this, and immediately went to the King to persuade him to relinquish the affair.
It is, however, sufficient to say that she had one day to persuade him that he was the cause of a libertinism of which he was really the victim.
But she did not tell me that she had done all in her power to persuade him of the contrary, and that the King spoke thus by way of reproaching her for the lies she had invented about me.
They are forced to return to the harbor for the second time on account of contrary weather, which so affects one of the priests, Estevan Ortiz, "that no entreaties availed to persuade him to finish the voyage they had undertaken.
But, at their arrival, they found the Chinese captain had reached a new determination, and neither gifts nor petitions could persuade him to fulfil his promises in Manila.
Under these circumstances I went to Wharncliffe last night, to persuade him to declare his intentions without loss of time.
He is disappointed, but not dejected, and I tried to persuade him that an arrangement on this basis is not less probable than it was.
I have been labouring to persuade him to make up his mind to vote for the second reading, and to tell the King that such is his intention, which he has promised me he will.
Henry's object was to persuade him, if possible, that the interest of the paper will be in the long run better consulted by leaning towards the side of order and quiet than by continuing to exasperate and inflame.
The king commanded the Doctor Suarez de Toledo, his first almoner, to visit him, and try to persuade him: his efforts were unavailing, though Don Carlos always treated him with great respect.
I say nothing but to persuade him that I am far from being that contumacious enemy to his faith which he is prone to imagine me to be.
To persuade him of his wife's guilt was, I thought, an effectual way of destroying whatever remained of matrimonial happiness; and the means were fully in my power.
All this it was easy to suggest to your reflections, and I endeavoured to persuade him to write a second letter; but he would not.
The town was once more indebted to the engineer Colonel Rosworm, who had refused to leave his post when so many of the richer people had departed, even though Warden Heyrick had tried to persuade him to withdraw with the others.
Thereupon he joined Monro, and attempted to persuade him to advance and attack Cromwell's rear, as they had still an equal number of troops.
As soon as his intentions for the north were known, the Earl of Derby endeavoured topersuade him to march by way of Lancashire in order to relieve Lathom House.
I was only anxious that you should speak to my father, and try to persuade him that I can never be happy with my cousin.
Were I assur'd that I were such a lover I should be with myself quite out of love: I prythee, let's persuade him still to live.
Master Churms, you are one can do much with her father: and if you love as you say, persuade him to use her more kindly, and give her liberty to take her choice; for these made marriages prove not well.
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