It is our desire to see it win its way by persuasion and calm discussion to the rational minds of men.
What the occasion now required was that passion should burn low, and reasoned persuasion hold up the guiding lamp.
This grew worse in the time of Justinian, who, not to be behind the bishops to the fifth and sixth centuries in zeal, thought it no crime to condemn to death a man of a different persuasion from his own.
The person particularly meant here was Abu Becr, at whose persuasion Saad had become a Moslem.
Endeavouring both by threats andpersuasion to entice me to commit folly with my mistress.
Hitherto Mohammed had propagated his religion by fair means, so that the whole success of his enterprise, before his flight to Medina, must be attributed to persuasion only, and not to compulsion.
When apprised of his coming, the lady had protested, and by every means in her power sought to avoid the visit; but young Lovel hoped to gain her a potent friend by persistence, and overcome by his persuasion she submitted.
Isaiah replied, "All poets believe that it does, and in ages of imagination this firmpersuasion removed mountains; but many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything.
In The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Blake tells us that, when the Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with him, he asked, "Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so make it so?
Persuasion had failed, as Sidney doubtless foresaw, and he was in no condition to carry things with a high hand.
The Queen impressed the value of patience upon Sussex, her own principle being rather to recover the subject by persuasionthan force.
Robin shall find it takes a vast deal of persuasion to bend me to swallow so much pardon in milk and water.
In despair, he came to Miss Charlecote, begging her to try her powers of persuasionfor the sake of poor Bertha, now his primary object, whom he treated with spoiling affection.
He did not repeat his persuasion of their not marrying--and from that, I am inclined to hope, he might have been misunderstood before.
Would you believe it, Lizzy, that when he went to town last November, he really loved me, and nothing but a persuasion of my being indifferent would have prevented his coming down again!
No doubt thepersuasion used with the Duchess had been very strong.
Of course I am aware that there are a certain number of persons of your persuasion round about us.
The general ordered them to disperse, but no attention was paid to this command, whereupon he ordered his soldiers to charge, and in a moment force accomplished what long-continued persuasion had failed to effect.
But all persuasion was in vain; they swept me along with them, making me enter by the Carmelite Gate, where they took the flag from me and allowed me to enter the house of a woman whose name I have never known.
Before her rites thy sickening reason flew, Divine Persuasion from thy tongue withdrew, While Laughter mock'd, or Pity stole a sigh: Can Wit her tender movements rightly frame Where the prime function of the soul is lame?
We then drove to the Governor's* house, who received us very civilly, and with very little persuasion agreed to our request.
The King seems to have had an idea that he might by his personal persuasion bring his unaccommodating wife to a more reasonable frame of mind.
The persuasion of her Lutheran relatives indeed induced her to go to Allstedt after Kern had been appointed successor to Thomas Münzer in that town, but there her horror only grew for the sacrilegious union she had contracted.
Everyone should therefore accustom himself resolutely to the persuasion that he is in a state of grace and that his person and deeds are pleasing [to God].
Thus amidst the trouble looming he finds his chief consolation in his fanatical self-persuasion that the Papacy must fall and that he is the chosen instrument to bring this about, i.
Connection of Luther’s Abusiveness with his Mystic Persuasion of his Special Call.
Connection of Luther’s abusiveness with his mystic persuasion of his special call; all his anger really directed against the devil; it is no insult “to call a turnip a turnip.
His bearing was now abrupt and imperious, as that of one accustomed to rule wild spirits, and he had exchanged the grace of persuasion for the sternness of command.
Persuasion is that form of discourse the purpose of which is to influence the will.
Persuasion introduces a new element into composition; for, while exposition and argument are directed to a man's reason, persuasion is addressed to the emotions and the will.
Exposition defines a term, or explains a proposition; argument proves the truth or falsity of a proposition; persuasion urges to action upon a proposition.
This is a persuasion built upon liberty, and not only favorable to it.
The Southern Commissioner, after employing persuasion and threats, finally took his leave of the city, sending back from Vera Cruz, as I am informed, a very offensive letter to the Government here.
Another distinguished Frenchman, Agénor de Gasparin, whose impassioned love of liberty and enlightened devotion to our country impart to his voice all the persuasion of friendship, has made a similar appeal.
In its pages is to be found every artifice of persuasion that could be skillfully used by an adroit pamphleteer for the purpose of playing upon the fears of his readers and inciting them to determined measures of self-defense.
These men, while engaged in their enterprise, met with a certain idolatrous priest of their own persuasion (would to God no such priests were to be found among the Pennsylvanians!
Incredible as it appeared to Mr. Wace, the persuasion at last became irresistible, that it was these creatures which owned the great quasi-human buildings and the magnificent garden that made the broad valley so splendid.
He had a momentary persuasion that his head was knocked to pieces, and then something hit his head and back from behind, and the fight became an uninteresting, an impersonal thing.
Is there never an honest woman of thy persuasion near--one who would show me no favour?
For Richard was now but too well convinced that he had no power of persuasion equal to the task of making Dorothy see things as he saw them.
But they tell me that they of your lordship's persuasion like it not.
But tell me, why should the persuasion of man or woman hang upon the words of a fellow-mortal?
In their hearts they nursed a half-persuasion that Raglan had fallen because of their wrongs within its walls, and the shame that there had been heaped upon the godly.
Then what persuasion had been unable to accomplish was brought about by a natural calamity.
This failed, just as the other attempts at persuasion had failed.
A train of thought and feeling had been lighted in the mind of his companion, which he felt might lead to all he wished, while he was apprehensive that further persuasion would awaken opposition, and renew old sentiments.
