The advantages he thought attending it were numerous, and it would argue the utmost folly to neglect them.

Contrary to his expectation he found my brother averse to the scheme.

Slight efforts, he, at first, thought would subdue his reluctance; but he found this aversion by no means slight.

The interest that he took in the happiness of his friend and his sister, and his own partiality to the Saxon soil, from which he had likewise sprung, and where he had spent several years of his youth, made him redouble his exertions to win Wieland's consent.

For this end he employed every argument that his invention could suggest.