 | C. Adams - English language - 1838 - 180 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,... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1852 - 670 pages
...of copper money, three or four silver dol-lars, and five pistoles in gold. AS he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the cop-per. Another...and all. At this sermon there was also one of our Hub ; who being of my senti-ments respecting the building in Georgia, and suspecting a collection might... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1838 - 316 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...stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and de~ termined me to give the silver; and he finished so ad70 mirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly... | |
 | Robert Philip - Evangelical Revival - 1838 - 566 pages
...the copper. The next stroke won the silver: — and the fmishing stroke was so admirable, he says, " that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish — gold and all ! " This is a good story ; but he tells a still better one of his friend Hopkinson. He had gone empty-handed,... | |
 | Robert Philip - Evangelical Revival - 1838 - 678 pages
...give the copper. The next stroke won the silver; and the finishing stroke was so admirable, he says, " that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish —gold and all." This is a good story; hut he tells a still better one of his friend Hopkinson. He had gone empty-handed,... | |
 | John Gillies - Presbyterian Church - 1838 - 728 pages
...of copper money, three or four silver dollars, nnd five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper ; another stroke of his orator}' made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver; and he finished so admirably,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1839 - 532 pages
...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...admirably, that I emptied my " pocket wholly into the collection, gold and all." It appears, however, that in general his manner was theatrical and his language... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 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...determined me to give the silver; and he finished so ad70 mirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all. At this sermon... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1839 - 674 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 stroke of his oratory made me ashamed ofthat, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket... | |
 | 1840 - 526 pages
...sermons in aid of the proposed charity. The remainder of this story should be told in his own words — ' I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three...; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pockets into the collector's dish, gold and all !' But the conduct of one of Franklin's friends, who... | |
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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... 
