But after I had considered it a while, I asked him seriously if he was in earnest, and that he would venture, on the single consideration of an attempt to
convert those poor people, to be locked up in an unplanted island for perhaps his life, and at last might not know whether he should be able to do them good or not?
But a far more important consideration, as I believe, is that, during the process of further modification, by which two varieties are supposed on my theory to be
converted and perfected into two distinct species, the two which exist in larger numbers from inhabiting larger areas, will have a great advantage over the intermediate variety, which exists in smaller numbers in a narrow and intermediate zone.
So I've always found," and he proceeded to tell them, as he peeled his apple, how he committed himself once, in his youthful days, to make a speech at a political meeting, and went there ablaze with enthusiasm for the ideals of his own side; but while his leaders spoke, he became gradually
converted to the other way of thinking, if thinking it could be called, and had to feign illness in order to avoid making a fool of himself--an experience which had sickened him of public meetings.
Having
converted spies, getting hold of the enemy's spies and using them for our own purposes.
The children were amazed hear that the more the Quakers were scourged, and imprisoned, and banished, the more did the sect increase, both by the influx of strangers and by
converts from among the Puritans, But Grandfather told them that God had put something into the soul of man, which always turned the cruelties of the persecutor to naught.
Nothing, we are told, could exceed the implicit and affectionate devotion of the Indian
converts to the Jesuit fathers, and the Catholic faith was disseminated widely through the wilderness.
But the great staple articles of food into which the bread-fruit is
converted by these natives are known respectively by the names of Amar and Poee-Poee.
"He was
converted up in Maine, where nobody knew him, and he never told a soul he was coming till he got here.
When we began to apply ourselves to the work of the mission we could not by any means persuade any but the lord and the priest to receive us into their houses; the rest were rough and untractable to that degree that, after having
converted six, we despaired of making any farther progress, and thought it best to remove to other towns where we might be better received.
He must show that he's
converted. Son of darkness, he added, turning to Queequeg, art thou at present in communion with any christian church?
The
converts of this sect are oftener driven within its hospitable gates by worldly misfortune than drawn thither by fanaticism and are received without inquisition as to their motives.
This gorge was dammed and the waters of the lake collected: the Susquehanna was
converted into a rill.