 | England - 1824 - 758 pages
...of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As lie proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper ; another...wholly into the collector's dish, gold§ and all.' " + Mr Winter relates a curious anecdote of his preaching at a maid- servant who had displeased him... | |
 | John Edwards Caldwell - 1818 - 780 pages
...of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold ; as he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another...At this sermon there was also one of our club, who being of my sentiments respecting the building at Georgia, and suspecting a collection might be intended,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 pages
...of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold ; as he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another...At this sermon there was also one of our club, who being of my sentiments respecting the building in Georgia, and suspecting a collection might be intended,... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 594 pages
...of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold : as lie proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another...At this sermon there was also one of our club, who being of my sentiments respecting the building in Georgia, and suspecting a collection might be intended,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold; as he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another...At this sermon there was also one of our club, who being of my sentiments respecting the building in Georgia, and suspecting a collection might be intended,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...pistoles in gold; as he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another ftroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined...At this sermon there was also one of our club, who being of my sentiments respecting the building in Georgia, and suspecting a collection might be intended,... | |
 | 1818 - 588 pages
...handful of copper-money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold; as he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratorymade me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver, and he finished B0 admirably,... | |
 | Robert Southey - Evangelists - 1820 - 660 pages
...handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded 1 began to soften, and concluded to give the copper ; another...wholly into the collector's dish, gold * and all." No wonder that such a preacher should be admired and followed in a country where the habits of the... | |
 | Robert Southey - Evangelists - 1820 - 642 pages
...handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper ; another...wholly into the collector's dish, gold * and all." No wonder that such a preacher should be admired and followed in a country where the habits of the... | |
 | Robert Southey - Methodism - 1820 - 856 pages
...animated, yet natural action, that it surpassed any tiling he ever saw or heard in any other preacher. stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and...wholly into the collector's dish, gold* and all." No wonder that such a preacher should be admired and followed in a country where the habits of the... | |
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... to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles... 
