 | 1853 - 418 pages
...three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles 182 LONGBOWISMS. in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another...ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver : mnd he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collectors dish, gold and... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 424 pages
...copper money, three or four silver dollars, 6 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 6 determined me to give the silver ; and he finished { so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly... | |
 | Bristol tabernacle - 1854 - 196 pages
...his pocket, copper and silver, besides several pistoles of gold. He writes, "As he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper ; another...pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all." Hume, the acute sceptic and historian, thus describes the closing part of a sermon he heard from him... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 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...admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collectors' dish, gold and all. At this sermon there was also one of our club, who, being of my sentiments... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1855 - 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...give the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that J emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all. At thig sermon there was also one... | |
 | Theology - 1856 - 604 pages
...handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five gold pistoles. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper; another...wholly into the collector's dish — gold and all I At this sermon there was also one of the club, who being of my sentiments respecting the building... | |
 | Christians - 1856 - 390 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." Henceforward we find Whitefield in "journeyings often," and " in perils " by sea and land. He was a... | |
 | Evangelists - 1857 - 540 pages
...four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and determined to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory...At this sermon there was also one of our club ; who being of my sentiments respecting the building at Georgia, and suspectingli collection might be intended,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1857 - 706 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...ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; aftd he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1858 - 414 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...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,... | |
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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... 
