And the only easy way to ditch a man like Feisul, who's as honest as the day is long, and no man's fool, is to convince his fanatical admirers that for his own sake he ought to be forced along a certain course.

But there's a little oversight that should convince you it's a forgery.

"I propose to save him for another effort, and the only way to do that is to convince him.

The best way to convince him is to show him that letter, which can't be done if Feisul's enemies discover who carries it.

Perhaps the two of us together can convince him what is best.

I have lain awake at night, turning it over and over in my mind, and trying to convince myself as to what was best to be done.

Fifthly, If men will not be at the pains to declare the meaning of their words, and definitions of their terms are not to be had, yet this is the least that can be expected, that, in all discourses wherein one man pretends to instruct or convince another, he should use the same word constantly in the same sense.

That it is so, if experience did not convince us, the consideration of the things themselves would never be able in the least to discover to us.

He that needs a probation to convince him that two are not three, that white is not black, that a triangle is not a circle, &c., or

any other two [determined] distinct ideas are not one and the same, will need also a demonstration to convince him that IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE SAME THING TO BE AND NOT TO BE. 20.

He that can doubt whether he be anything or no, I speak not to; no more than I would argue with pure nothing, or endeavour to convince nonentity that it were something.

If any one pretends to be so sceptical as to deny his own existence, (for really to doubt of it is manifestly impossible,) let him for me enjoy his beloved happiness of being nothing, until hunger or some other pain convince him of the contrary.

This new source of chagrin exasperated the complexional restlessness, which now made our author think that he should be more easy any where than in Ferrara; perhaps more able to communicate with and convince his critics; and, unfortunately, he permitted himself to descend to a weakness the most fatal of all others to a mind naturally exalted and ingenuous.

To keep the Filipino docile, he must have repeated to him day after day what he is, to convince him that he is incompetent.

What I can say to you, to convince you, is that the vices from which you suffer ought to be ascribed by you neither to us nor to the government.

I cannot convince myself in this way of the existence of Napoleon, but if I have doubts about it, a simple process of reasoning shows me that there are hosts of facts which are incompatible with his non-existence.

A week before the promised month was up, Moll and her husband came back to the Court, and lest I should imagine that her pleasures had been curtailed by his caprice, she was at great pains to convince me that he had yielded to her insistence in this matter, declaring she was sick of theatres, ridottos, masquerades, and sight-seeing, and had sighed to be home ere she had been in London a week.

But the varlet to argue with me!to pretend to convince a man, who knows in is heart that he is doing a wrong thing!He must needs think that this would put me upon trying what I could say for myself; and when the extended compunction can be carried from the heart to the lips it must evaporate in words.

For hence we may gather, that it is a great offence, and men are much deceived that think too well of themselves, an especial argument to convince them of folly.

Such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince France and the world that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.

They will be felt with indignation and repelled with that decision which shall convince the world that we are not a degraded people; that we can never submit to the demands of a foreign power without examination and without discussion.

An attempt to separate the people of the United States from their Government is an attempt to separate them from themselves; and although foreigners who know not the genius of our country may have conceived the project, and foreign emissaries may attempt the execution, yet the united efforts of our fellow-citizens will convince the world of its impracticability.

The world has furnished no example of a flourishing commerce without a maritime protection, and a moderate knowledge of man and his history will convince anyone that no such prodigy ever can arise.

It was said in order to convince himself as much as to convince the others.

It was said in order to convince himself as much as to convince the others.