How to use gave ear to in a sentence? Find typical usage patterns (collocations)/phrases/context for "gave ear to" and check conjugation/comparative form for "gave ear to". Mastering all the usages of "gave ear to" from sentence examples published by news publications.
Even before the 1543 publication of De revolutionibus, rumors circulated about its central theses. Martin Luther is quoted as saying in 1539: > People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth > revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon ... This > fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture > tells us [Joshua 10:13] that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and > not the earth.Quoted in Thomas Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution, Cambridge, > Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1957, p. 191. When the book was finally published, demand was low, with an initial print run of 400 failing to sell out.Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science, , p. 354.
|
|
29 [Of Dalmatia and of the adjacent nations in it]: "...the majority of these Slavs [Serbs, Croats] were not even baptized, and remained unbaptized for long enough. But in the time of Basil, the Christ-loving emperor, they sent diplomatic agents, begging and praying him that those of them who were unbaptized might receive baptism and that they might be, as they had originally been, subject to the empire of the Romans; and that glorious emperor, of blessed memory, gave ear to them and sent out an imperial agent and priests with him and baptized all of them that were unbaptized of the aforesaid nations..." He put Serbia under the suzerainty of the Byzantine Empire. The Saracens attacked Ragusa in 866.Pokrštavanje Južnih Slovena The Ragusians asked Basil I for help, which he answered, sending a large fleet with his admiral Niketas Ooryphas.
|
|
No results under this filter, show 2 sentences.