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At their best, the popes and cardinals replaced military conquest by moral leadership and persuasion; at their worst, they could show the same hunger for political power and worldly wealth as any caesar or grand duke.
Morris is clearly impressed by those moments when Reagan demonstrated his powers of leadership and persuasion, and he concedes that Reagan had an enormous impact on the attitudes of the American people.
To this day, long after Latin has ceased to be the principal medium of written legal documents and records, lawyers cling to and defend against all comers unnumbered words and phrases in that ancient tongue, under the persuasion, justified or not, that they enrich the legal vocabulary with precision, permanence, and dignity.
Readers should be aware that Rees is British and that the book has a British leaning, less in the choice of sources, perhaps, than in the inclusion of quotations that are opaque to those who are not of the British persuasion and in attributions to obscure Englishmen--John Braham, English singer and songwriter (1774-1856), for example.
Though it may not be apparent to everyone, my close friends are fully aware of my "persuasion."