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When he promised friendship for the future, he called his hearers to witness how true a friend he had been to the French, who had deceived him and given him reason to transfer his friendship.

Four American Indians King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola Edson Leone Whitney

Without directly referring to it, he called his hearers 'attention to the forgery every time he quoted a document by his elaborate explanation that he believed, unless there was some mistake on the part of those with whom the matter originated and which he had been unable to detect, that this was correct.

Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings Various 1921

Note, The number of fruitless hearers is very great, even of those who heard Christ himself.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

"wheat" [Jer 23: 28], that is, food to the true prophet and his hearers, is a consuming "fire," and a crushing "hammer" (Mt 21: 44) to false prophets and their followers (2Co 2: 16).

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

But Wordsworth's story is not one of social order imposed by an Orpheus figure on a discordant mob; on the contrary, this Orpheus, or Orpheus-Dionysus hybrid ( "he abates not his din"), (re) calls his hearers to a once or future state of life and bliss outside the social order as it is presently constituted.

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Among his hearers was a girl, with eyelids less red and sunken than the others, so that one could almost fancy she was hiding eyes, whom especially he hoped to persuade.

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Among his hearers was a girl, with eyelids less red and sunken than the others, so that one could almost fancy she was hiding eyes, whom especially he hoped to persuade.

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At the conclusion of his parable of the wicked tenants, Jesus summed up its lesson by citing Psalm 118:22 and called his hearers to reflect on its message.

THE NAMES OF JESUS RUBEL SHELLY 1999

At the conclusion of his parable of the wicked tenants, Jesus summed up its lesson by citing Psalm 118:22 and called his hearers to reflect on its message.

THE NAMES OF JESUS RUBEL SHELLY 1999

God with a mixture of majesty and modesty; had a strong, sweet voice, and an animated manner of gesture, far from any affectation or vanity: but what chiefly affected the hearts of his hearers was the humility and unction with which he spoke from the abundance of his own heart.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler