bring to reason

Example Sentences

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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

Used in conversation for "to bring to reason."

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

In private, he gave advice to both, writing many letters to Caesar, and personally entreating Pompey; doing his best to soothe and bring to reason both the one and the other.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh