 | Kazlitt Arvine - Anecdotes - 1850 - 882 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,... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 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...pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all." Franklin, whose mind was almost instinctively turned towards philosophical pursuits, felt the want... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers (Secondary) - 1851 - 288 pages
...silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give him the copper; another stroke of his oratory made me...that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's 7 dish, gold and all. At this sermon," continued Franklin, " there was also one of our club, who being... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 pages
...pistoles in gold. As the preacher went on, I softened, and resolved to give the copper ; another stroke of oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me...pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all !" It is curious with respect both to wealth and talents that people are respected for what they are... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 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 suspectmg a collection might be intended,... | |
 | Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania - 1853 - 472 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...the collector's dish, gold and all. At this sermon, (continues Franklin,) there was also one of our Club, who being of my sentiments respecting the building... | |
 | William Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 858 pages
...handful ol copper, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another...into the collector's dish, gold and all !" At this time there was no military defensive force in Pennsylvania. The inhabitants were mostly Quokers, and... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 430 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... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 428 pages
...four silver dollars, and five pistoles 'in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and con' eluded to give the copper; another stroke of his oratory...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... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 570 pages
...and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I " began to soften, and concluded to give the cop" per ; another stroke of his oratory made me " ashamed of...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... | |
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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... 
