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So Ernest, overborne by her intreaties, yielded at last, and made an appointment with Sir Antony Wraxall. He took his quarter-hour in due form, and told the great physician all his symptoms as though he believed in the foolish farce.
And it was only by the personal intreaties of his sovereign, and to assist him in that arduous and difficult situation, in which those who ought to have served, deserted him, that he once again accepted of office.
Did we not run, ride, labour, and strive abundantly, if it might have been, for the good of thy soul, though now a damned soul? Did we not venture our goods, our names, our lives? Yea, did we not even kill ourselves with our earnest intreaties of thee to consider of thine estate, and by Christ to escape this dreadful day? O sad doom! O how righteously doth his sentence pass upon thee!
How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have you said "No, my freind never will I comply with your request till I may be no longer in Danger of again experiencing such dreadful ones." Surely that time is now at hand. You are this day 55.
The Feasts of the King of Persia his Queen Vashti sent for her Refusal to obey the Summons her Divorce Plan to fill up the Vacancy Esther chosen Queen Mordecai detects a Conspiracy declines paying Homage to Haman Resentment of the latter, who obtains a Decree against the Jews Mordecai's Grief, and repeated Applications to Esther she goes in to the King is accepted invites the King and Haman to a Banquet Mortification of the latter at Mordecai's continued Neglect Orders a Gallows to be built for the disrespectful Jew the Honour conferred by the King upon Mordecai for his past Zeal in his Service Haman's Indignation is fetched to a second Banquet Esther tells her feelings, and accuses Haman his Confusion and useless Intreaties he is hung on his own Gallows Mordecai's Advancement Escape of the Jews by the Intercession of Esther Feast of Purim.
Wives also take it as a compliment to have it said of them, that being conquered as it were, they yielded to the pressing intreaties of the men. Who does not foresee, that if the women courted the men, they would seldom be accepted? They would either be indignantly rejected, or be enticed to lasciviousness, and also would dishonor their modesty.
On which he told him he was an idle boy, but he must not expect that wheedle would serve his turn; for since he was not sick, he must go to school the next day: Natura renewed his intreaties for pardon, and assured him he now desired nothing more than to do as he commanded.
The emperor was in a state of utter distraction. His affairs were fast going to ruin; he was harassed by counter intreaties; he knew not which way to turn, or what to do. Insupportable gloom oppressed his spirit. Pale and haggard, he wandered through the rooms of his palace, the image of woe.
Notwithstanding the urgent intreaties of the Earl of Peterborough to pursue the foe, he insisted upon first making a pilgrimage to the shrine of the holy Virgin at Montserrat, twenty-four miles from Barcelona. This curious monastery consists of but a succession of cloisters or hermitages hewn out of the solid rock.
Although I had always despised her from the Day I had overheard her conversation with my Edward, yet in civility I complied with hers and Sir Edward's intreaties that I would inform them of the whole melancholy affair. They were greatly shocked even the obdurate Heart of Sir Edward and the insensible one of Augusta, were touched with sorrow, by the unhappy tale.
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