I hope it is not so low with him as he made it seeme in the triall of his seuerall Friends 2 It should not be, by the perswasion of his new Feasting 1 I should thinke so.
Shee is desperate heere: A peeuish selfe-will'd Harlotry, One that no perswasion can doe good vpon.
I sweare I will not die to day for anie mans perswasion Duke.
As on the other hand, it teaches People to be Ungrateful, by possessing them with a Perswasionconcerning their Benefactors, that they have no Regard to them in the Benefits they bestow.
After this the lorde by perswasion of his wife, commaunded that the foole should be auoided the house, that his presence might not grieue or torment her, ne yet renewe the memorie of a thing that neuer was thought or doen.
The simple yong man giuing faith to the words of his vncle that was honoured as a king (thinking perhaps that it proceeded by the perswasion of the Duchesse) followed his commaundement, and obeied whollie his traiterous and abhominable hest.
But whether their perswasion be to the ende they may be reuenged of their enemies, or for the loue they beare to vs, we leaue that to the tryall hereafter.
But in the end by the commandement and perswasion of me and Captaine Cooke, they prepared the boates: and seeing the Captaine and me so resolute, they seemed much more willing.
Sit with perswasion down, and you deal honestly: I will look better on her.
Indeed Sir, I knew it not my self, Until this Gentleman open'd my dull eyes, And by perswasionmade me see it.
Perswasion is a partner in the crime, I will renounce my claim unto a mother, If you make offer on't.
What thinkest thou, said I, of those of your perswasion in general, and more particularly of those persons whom he hath damn’d?
The Traveller describeth the place of his birth and Parents, the death of his elder Brother, and how through the perswasion of his Father; he resolved to follow thieving.
And Mutezuma hearing this dyuelishe Oracle, and likewise Cortez hauing warned him that hée would visite hym as an enimie, he was by this perswasion of Sathan, the better willing to receyue hym into Mexico.
And by this perswasion of the grosse multitude, the report grew strong, especially (as they are too much accustomed to banning and cursing) while one would wish to another the firie torments of this mountaine.
Vtterance also and language is giuen by nature to man for perswasion of others, and aide of them selues, I meane the first abilite to speake.
I say inforce because no one thing more preuaileth with all ordinary iudgements than perswasion by similitude.
This figure serues for amplification, and also for ornament, and to enforce perswasion mightely.
The Citizens are hasting, Sir, in heaps, all full resolved, By myperswasion of your Brothers Treasons.
And in the Vertues which these their first Lawgivers taught them, their Successors easily retain'd them; continuing still to maintain in them a perswasion of their Divine Extraction, and Authority.
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