| William Smith - 1814 - 330 pągines
...new way of praising God, let me request them not to be offended, but to think seriously of the adage; Convince a man against his will, He's of the same opinion still" We complain of a prevailing want of the spirit of praise in our churches ; but it is to no purpose... | |
| Ezra Sampson - 1823 - 286 pągines
...errors of the former; but the blind and stubborn prejudices of the latter no reasoning car reach. " Convince a man against his will, He's of the same opinion still." It is no less melancholy than true, that, in general, we take infinitely less pains to improve our... | |
| 1824 - 602 pągines
...parliament, is to endanger an insurrection among the natives !* With such men there is no reasoning. ' Convince a man against his will, He's of the same opinion still.' Nothing is too extravagant, too absurd for the opponents of Missions to urge in the way of objection... | |
| 1825 - 546 pągines
...fellow men ? Dues, then, God require, at the hands of mankind, impossibilities? What says the poet:— " Convince a man against his will, He's of the same opinion still." I am inclined to believe, that you will leave God to do with me as seemeth meet in his supremo wisdom;... | |
| 1828 - 608 pągines
...living in a farmer's family, and yet—I am very happy. January 23d.— " Convince a nian iigainrt his will, He's of the same opinion still." There is...defended his position with all the strength of his logic; that he has mistaken the causes or consequences of his system. Were it not for this tenaciousness... | |
| 1835 - 904 pągines
...reply, before I am cudgelled. Not that I hope to make any impression on Vindex, knowing well, that " Convince a man against his will, He's of the same opinion still ;" but because I know the truth is great, and will ultimately prevail ; that he is doubly armed whose... | |
| 1836 - 382 pągines
...approve of his marrying a girl without known relations, the penniless orphan of a curate ; but — " Convince a man against his will, He's of the same opinion still," and Sir Henry had many arguments to oppose to mine, but at length I triumphed, I showed him it was... | |
| Condy Raguet - 1840 - 472 pągines
...people it would be vain to argue: the question with them is not one of reason, but of passion—and, " Convince a man against his will, " He's of the same opinion still." We think it much more likely that the British Government, if it were to interfere at all in forcing... | |
| Willian Blaackwood aand Sons. Edinburgh - 1843 - 712 pągines
...paper without making a suggestion to those who will not mte leases; for I know, with Hudibras, that, " Convince a man against his will, He's of the same opinion still ;" and, therefore, though I could make out a case ten times stronger than I have, it would be of no... | |
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