bring to reason

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Will those who desire "Order through Liberty and in Liberty" succeed in meeting in sufficiently large numbers to bring to reason, without having recourse to force, the numerous partizans of the Commune?

From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by Leighton, John

But will this final failure bring to reason the hotheads of Sofia?

From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various

His practical spirit judged with a smile that a handful of peasantry and grenadiers would suffice to bring to reason this dynastically-minded people.

From The New Society by Windham, Arthur

The essential thing was to obtain the consent of the governed; but they were turbulent, torn by factions, and hard to bring to reason.

From The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 by MacMechan, Archibald

Bayard," said he, "you know that I am about to cross the mountains, for to bring to reason the Venetians, who by great wrong withhold from me the countship of Cremona and other districts.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Black, Robert