Through the solicitation of an intimate friend, connected with the college, he was induced to enter, and through whose influence, as a special favor, he was admitted.
Precept and Counsel When we speak of temptation being a solicitation to violate the known will of God, it is necessary for us to understand that conformity to God's will is not in every case required of us under penalty of sin.
Nothing can constitute temptation save what is a solicitation to violate the known will of God.
By entering into occasions of sin we assist the tempter, and by repeated acts we so train our hearts to delight in some particular sin that no outside solicitation is necessary.
Why should a child of God who is daily and consciously receiving and enjoying the gifts of a loving Father find the direct solicitation to offend Him so difficult to overcome?
In order to constitute temptation, the solicitation must be directed to an intelligent, moral creature.
He is originally responsible for every solicitation to sin, although he does not always act directly and immediately.
Her attention now was bestowed upon my Alex, who required not quite so much solicitation to take his part of the sofa.
The passer-by of these abodes of sensuality is invited by open solicitation or unmistakable gesture to enter them, especially by the more degraded of the women.
We often saw ladies around the mansion, dressed in the very height of fashion, and their actions led us to believe that they were there at the solicitation of Rev.
There she lay, the sin of her past life being that she, too, had been deceived at the altars of Rome--a victim of priestly solicitation in the confessional.
MY LORD, 'That generosity, by which I was recommended to the favour of his Majesty, will not be offended at a solicitation necessary to make that favour permanent and effectual.
From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support.
At their earnest solicitation Sidney Rigdon allowed the elders to hold meetings in his chapel.
However, he manifested a friendly spirit, and at the earnest solicitation of Samuel, consented to take a subscription paper and try to sell copies of the book.
The evil was so notorious that nobody but his majesty's ministers doubted its existence, and they could not deny it, if they only cast their eyes around, and saw the counties pouring on them every kind of solicitation for relief.
At thesolicitation of their ally, the court of Versailles despatched a superior force, under M.
In this manner the Prince recovered his liberty[389], which he owed to the powerful solicitation of the Queen of Sweden, and the good-offices of her Minister.
Wearied, at last, with solicitation and repulses, I resolved to hide myself for ever from the world, and depend no longer on the opinion or caprice of others.
How long shall sloth usurp thy useless hours, Unnerve thy vigour, and enchain thy pow'rs; While artful shades thy downy couch inclose, And soft solicitation courts repose?
Unable to fulfil the prompting, he remains under the solicitation of the motive: and his state is denominated craving, longing, appetite, desire.
The confusion occurs in the most singular form in Hobbes, who actually identifies Pleasure and Appetite--"this motion in which consisteth pleasure, is a solicitation to draw near to the thing that pleaseth.
Mr. Villard says: "April was for Brown another month of activesolicitation of funds.
Also, that it was disreputable; and he sought to absolve himself from any responsibility for their participation therein, by denying that it was at his solicitation "that they engaged in it at first.
I am sorry to find, what your solicitation seems to imply, that you have already gone the whole length of your credit.
But on mature reflection, I find it is one of those cases wherein my solicitation would be ill received.
He was the more disappointed and vexed, therefore, that Congress, instead of calling up and sanctioning the report, yielded to the solicitation of his enemies for a military trial.
He saved the college to mankind, and by example and personal solicitation stimulated others to give.
A chimpanzee, with a solicitation more than human, was solemnly searching a friend for fleas in the midst of a pandemonium of chattering and screeching and chasing, of rattling of bars and trapezes carried on by their companions.
She was always surprising him; but her solicitation concerning them was a balm, and he found all such instinctive acts refreshing.
After a good deal ofsolicitation and importunity, we received this morning four small yams from the wives of King Boy, who informed us that the same number of yams will be given us daily.
You would not have solicited his acceptance, but yielded to his solicitation of yours.
She wished extremely to explain what had been the object of the solicitation of Bellamy, and to clear him, as well as herself, from any further surmises; but she was ashamed to begin the subject.
Kirk Otey, who was in command of the regiment, very kindly gave me this detail without solicitation on my part.
It was only intended as a family paper, written at the solicitation of my children.
Some wild stories are told; but oftener the white man furnishes the subject, at the solicitation of some red men asking information.
The recommendation of the author's name was made without his solicitation or knowledge.
It is well known at the department in Washington that I accepted the appointment with reluctance, and finally yielded my wishes on the urgent solicitation of the Hon.
Without solicitation he was nominated and elected a member of the Convention that framed the present Constitution of Ohio.
Soon after, without solicitation on his part, he was appointed an agent for the sale of the Western Reserve school lands, a tract of fifty-six thousand acres, situated in the Virginia Military District.
While this road was in progress, upon the urgentsolicitation of the active promoters of the C.
Upon the reconstruction and extension of this last road Mr. Sargent was appointed resident engineer, and while there, seeing the advantages that Sandusky was likely to gain over Cleveland by her railways, at the solicitation of J.
At the urgent solicitation of the colony of Roanoke, Gov.
He was elected to the Georgia legislature a number of years and then resumed his practice again, at the solicitation of many of his former patients.
At the solicitationof lord Brougham, king William IV conferred on him the order of knighthood, with a pension of L300.
BELL, the Scottish traveler, returned to St. Petersburg from his embassy to Constantinople, whither he went at the earnest solicitation of the Russian cabinet, and the British minister.
Gustavus undertook the campaign at the urgent solicitation of Lubeck, who promised to defer payment of her loan for several years without interest, provided Gustavus would undertake the war.
About the middle of January the Cabinet came together and, at the solicitation of Archbishop Ulfsson, resolved to intrust the government for the time being to Erik Trolle.
I was a member of the Peace Congress of 1861 and I received several other appointments from Governor Andrew, but without solicitation by me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "solicitation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
