Then did that scripture seize upon my soul, HE IS OF ONE MIND, AND WHO CAN TURN HIM! I saw, it was as easy to persuade Him to make a new world, a new covenant, or a new Bible, besides that we have already, as to pray for such a thing. This was to persuade Him, that what He had done already was mere folly, and persuade Him to alter, yea, to disannul the whole way of salvation. And then would that saying rend my soul asunder; NEITHER IS THERE SALVATION IN ANY OTHER; FOR THERE IS NONE OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN AMONG MEN WHEREBY WE MUST BE SAVED. Acts iv.英文原著 · 《Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners》
"I will persuade the Signora to come back with us," he said. "Si, Signore. You must persuade the poor Signora. The poor Signora is mad to-night. She gave me a look--" His eyes clouded with moisture. "If the poor Signora had not been mad she could not have looked at me like that--at another, perhaps, but not at me."
It seemed as if at last his long reserve was breaking down. He put up his hand to his eyes. "I did not think that my Padrona--"
He stopped.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
Unconsciously a smile played about her lips. The child was watching her. "I'm glad you persuaded him," she said. Joan felt a flush mount to her face. She had forgotten Hilda for the instant. She forced a laugh. "Oh, I only persuaded him to do what he had made up his mind to do," she explained. "It was all settled."
"No, it wasn't," answered the child.英文原著 · 《All Roads Lead to Calvary》
Now I was it to know about rhetoric in the same way;-is rhetoric the only art which brings persuasion, or do other arts have the same effect? I mean to say-Does he who teaches anything persuade men of that which he teaches or not? He persuades, Socrates,-there can be no mistake about that. Again, if we take the arts of which we were just now speaking:-do not arithmetic and the arithmeticians teach us the properties of number? Certainly. And therefore persuade us of them? Then arithmetic as well as rhetoric is an artificer of persuasion? Clearly.英文原著 · 《Gorgias》
The Tiger sprang upon the Brahmin, to eat him up; and this time the Brahmin had very hard work to persuade him to wait. At last he did persuade him, however, and they walked on together. And in a little while they saw an old Alligator, lying half buried in mud and slime, at the river's edge.英文原著 · 《How To Tell Stories To Children》
He had been persuaded to dine with Governor Hancock and some other friends. "But the presence of his former friends and the revived memories of previous events, gave a great shock to his broken mind." He was persuaded to go back at once to the residence of Mr. Osgood.英文原著 · 《James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist》
CA: I mean, what would it take to persuade our culture to downplay it? CA: I mean, what would it take to persuade our culture to downplay it?演讲 · 《Why we make bad decisions ~ Dan Gilbert》
We could persuade her to take a train, still a lot more efficient than a car, We could persuade her to take a train, still a lot more efficient than a car,演讲 · 《A reality check on renewables ~ David MacKay》