 | 1853 - 418 Seiten
...copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me 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 all. At this sermon also, there was one of our chib, who being of my sentiments... | |
 | Bristol tabernacle - 1854 - 196 Seiten
...soften, and concluded to give the copper ; another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished...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 Seiten
...soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished...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 - 1855 - 522 Seiten
...soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to 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... | |
 | 1856 - 604 Seiten
...soften, and concluded to give the copper; another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished...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 Seiten
...soften, and concluded to give the copper ; another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver; and he finished...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... | |
 | 1857 - 540 Seiten
...soften, and determined to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished...who being of my sentiments respecting the building at Georgia, and suspectingli collection might be intended, had, by precaution, emptied tys pockets... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1857 - 706 Seiten
...Another stroke of his oratory made me 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 all.' A friend of the great printer who had taken the precaution to leave his purse at home for fear of being... | |
 | 1771 - 434 Seiten
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 | William Buell Sprague - 1859 - 856 Seiten
...soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver, and he finished...At this sermon there was also one of our club, who, bcing of my sentiments respecting the building in Georgia, and suspecting a collection might be intended,... | |
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I had in my pocket a 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 oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give... 
