1106 examples of conversion in sentences
We fear that the studies of Blackstone, upon which the gentlemen who argue thus have entered in order to fit themselves for the legal and constitutional argument of the question, have confused their minds, and that they are misled by some fancied analogy between a tract and an action of trover, and conceive that the one, like the other, cannot be employed till after an actual conversion has taken place.
The conversion of its editor to the temperance cause is the reason of the recent change in its tenets.
He found that she mainly coincided with the returned missionaries in those convictions regarding the Gospel doctrines of faith and instantaneous conversion that were so soon to move the world.
From that time he seriously endeavoured to bring about the conversion of the English nation, and a few years afterwards, being Pope, he happily effected it by the travels and labours of St. Augustine, who was the first Archbishop of Canterbury.
And, in addition to Mr. Tryan's victory, there is the conversion of Mrs. Dempster, not only from drunkenness to teetotalism (which might form the text for a set of illustrations by Mr. Cruikshank, in the moral style of his later days), but from hatred to love of the Gospel according to Mr. Tryan.
" In fact, one might as well detail the plot of the Merry Wives of Windsor or Robinson Crusoe, as recapitulate here the adventures of Scrooge the miser, and his Christmas conversion.
I have the absurd idea that this might really have begun life as a pathological thesis and suffered conversion into a novel.
With peace their numbers increased by the conversion of privateersmen into freebooters.
It is no doubt owing to the conversion of the entire Armenian nation under the passionate preaching of Gregory the Illuminator that most of the literary products, of primitive Armeniathe mythological legends and chants of heroic deeds sung by bardsare lost.
THE TORY'S CONVERSION.
I knew of many strange and unaccountable things that happened during the Revolution, but the conversion of Gil Lester from toryism capped the climax.
"But in this case, if you will wait till my story is through, you will see that Jane Hatfield had but little to do with Lester's conversion.
After my conversion, in Boston, he was about the first man I thought of.
" PRAYER INSTANTANEOUSLY ANSWERED FOR CONVERSION.
Some weeks ago she had sought the prayers of the daily prayer-meeting for the conversion of her precious child, who was spending a few weeks with some friends seventy miles from Augusta.
Strange to say, at the very moment when the faithful mother was writing her application for prayers for that child, she was announcing her own conversion.
'I will pray for his conversion,' said the doctor.
"Next thou objectest, that the having of saving light and grace presupposes conversion.
But that I deny: for, on the contrary, conversion presupposes the having of light and grace.
" "But there are hopes of his conversion.
Further, France was at present the theatre of the world's interest, since the Emperor was there, and on the Emperor's future depended largely the destinies of Europe: his conversion, it was thought, might be the final death-blow to Socialism in his dominions.
" Mr. Lurton shook his head, and protested, in his gentle and earnest way, against this doctrine of man's ability to do anything good before conversion.
He remembered that he had read, in very sound writers, arguments to prove that there could be no such thing as good works before conversion, and Mr. Lurton was too humble to set his judgment against the great doctors'.
[Footnote 4: This means actually gratuitous, for any real difficulty in getting metal to or from the mint operates as a cost in the conversion of bullion into money, or vice versa; e.g., the gold may be in Australia and the mint in London.]
Their conversion is not to be accomplished from one day to another, and it is only little by little that they will accept the evangelical law, of which you are the dispenser.