It turned out after, that the first occasion on which I had been mysteriously commissioned to him with a message which I did not understand, and which for that time he did not understand, was the evening of the day on which he had received the dead man's letter, appealing to himto him, a man whom he had wrongedon behalf of the child who was about to be left friendless in the world.

Augustine, appealing to the consciousness of mankind as well as to the testimony of Paul, prevailed over Pelagius, who appealed to the pride of reason.

It is all very well for the right honorable gentleman to come forward and say, 'I am thinking of posterity; my aim is heroic; and, appealing to posterity, I care neither for your cheers nor for your taunts,' It is very well for the right honorable gentleman to take this high-flying course, but

Both were great debaters, the one appealing to the understanding, and the other to popular sentiments.

The leading adversaries of the deists appealed, like them, to reason, and, in appealing to reason, did much to undermine authority.

Hence follows the indispensable necessity of appealing to the system of distributions, as above pointed out; for what class of laborers can be obtained in a country where the whites are so few, unless it be the natives?

One must assume an audience of a certain status and characteristics before one can rationally discuss the best methods of appealing to its intelligence and its sympathies.

I told you that with candor, with a decently human humility appealing to his affections, everything was possible.

Upon appealing to their masters for terms the owners, somewhat moved by compassion, sold them for one half of their value.

I looked at it and told him I was sure it was good, but, appealing to a gentleman who was passing, I found it was bad.

Before her marriage she had somewhat conspicuously adopted her husband's creed, and the Dagonets, picturing Paul as the prey of the Jesuits, had made the mistake of appealing to the courts for his custody.

He was also appealing to the possible patrons of literature among the leading statesmen of the hour.

The example of these men appealing to him as a wise policy, he directed to it the attention of the clergy at home.

The mottoes or sentences are, however, most generally selected from the Scriptures; either appealing to human sympathy in behalf of human suffering, or breathing forth God's tender compassion for the oppressed, or proclaiming, in thunder tones, his avenging justice on the oppressor.

We observed on all the estates which we visited, that the planters, when they wish to influence their people, are in the habit of appealing to them as freemen, and that now better things are expected of them.

You know as well as I do that the hard work you are doing is not in appealing to the reason of the supreme court of arbitration, the people.

He too drew my attention to how successfully the UG party was appealing to the voters.

He is remarkable for his changeableness, yet always positive; for his inconsistency, yet very learned; for his zeal "to correct popular errors," yet often himself erroneous; for his fertility in resources, yet sometimes meagre; for his success as an author, yet never satisfied; for his boldness of innovation, yet fond of appealing to antiquity.

In every parish in Clare the priests addressed their parishioners from the altar, appealing to them to be true to the representative of their faith.

The Justice in appealing to him felt sure of support; and was much astonished when Mr. Fishwick, in place of assenting, passed his hand across his brow, and stared at the speaker as if he had suddenly lost the power of speech.

The poser is triumphant, because the critic is tacitly appealing to the normal standard of probabilities in our own day.

I pictured one of them a member of the M.E. Church, appealing to that church for redress and spurned under the "Black Gag," and I?

Ah, bad onecruelestas cruel as she is pretty" (appealing to me), "is she not?

Another sheet, which made a point of appealing to the tastes of the vast foreign element of the city, grew very indignant as to the arrest of Antonio Spatola.

While appealing to our memories by the grandeur of her historic past, and to our imaginations by the work and tradition of her mighty dead, she appeals also to our senses with the rare magic of her personal beauty, if one may so call it.