hearers

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But when such Hearers, after long harkening to him, perceaued, that the drift of his discourses issued out, to conclude, this Vnum, Bonum, and Ens, to be Spirituall, Infinite, Æternall, Omnipotent, &c.

From The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara by Dee, John

Fitted the simple to cajole, First of his Wits, and then his Soul, He urges fifty false Pretences, Preaching his Hearers from their Senses.

From The Methodist A Poem by Lloyd, Evan

They are a kind of Comment to what he utters, and enforce every thing he says, with weak Hearers, better than the strongest Argument he can make use of.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

No Ear, But Eys them selvs were all the Hearers there.

From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst

Sure Mushrooms and Stones must be the Hearers where there are such Preachers.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius