...They strove by all the means in their power to divert him from such an unlucky scheme; but it was all preaching in the desert and hammering cold iron...
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete」
... “That’s enough,” said Don Quixote to himself, “it would be preaching in the desert to attempt by entreaties to induce this rabble to do any virtuous action...
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete」
...Therefore they endeavoured by all possible means to diverthim from his design; but all in vain; for it was but preaching toa rock, and hammering stubborn steel...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
...JohnSomething-or-other, had been preaching...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
...After his arrival there, he travelled through many counties, preaching in different meetings of the society, till he came to the city of York...
Thomas Clarkson 「The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the」
...To condemn the wrong of repression would to-day be like preaching to theconverted...
Peter Nielsen 「The Black Man's Place in South Africa」
..." "Did you feel that the preaching you heard was the true Gospel?" "One part of it, and one part burnt me as bad as ever insult did...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...John Wesley Pearson, who was engaged in school teaching and preaching, and belonged to the more moderate class of slave-holders...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...I made every effort to do good among them, and endeavored to preach to them on several occasions, but was interrupted and deterred by the whites, who forbade my preaching...
Charles Thompson 「Biography of a Slave」
...Paul was persecuted for preaching the redemption of mankind through the blood of the Savior, by pagans and gentiles...
Charles Thompson 「Biography of a Slave」
... That you take yourself with a seriousness which leads you to believe that you are preaching a crusade when you are only blowing a penny whistle...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905」
... And I discovered that those who want their property tobe respected, have an interest in preaching the existence of paradiseand hell, and in keeping the people in ignorance...
Emma Goldman 「Anarchism and Other Essays」
...Lamennais, preaching now a theocracy, now universal democracy, has been always consistent; that, under different names, he has sought invariably one and the same thing,—unity...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
..."I got a report that thepriests are preaching a holy war among the Malayand Dyak Mohammedans...
John Charles Beecham 「The Argus Pheasant」
...People are always preaching how little beauty matters, and then theyturn round and show that it makes all the difference in the world...
Lucy Foster Madison 「Bee and Butterfly」
..." The effect wasirresistible; but Dow heightened it by taking another text, preaching amost dignified sermon, and not again referring to the text on which he hadstarted...
Various 「The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916」
...Higher criticism and religious philosophy were now the center of his preaching and writing...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...How widely this imitation of Christian preaching has spread I cannot say; but that Christianity has in any degree been imitated is significant, both ethically and sociologically...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
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