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Evidently he was striving to subdue the exhortations of a desire which was seducing him into signing an untruthful statement.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various

The idea was plausible, it was seducing, it was amiable; and held forth the prospect of general improvement of morals from the enlarged culture of mind.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 by Various