 | 1824 - 758 pages
...but he was resolute in his first project, rejected my counsel, and I therefore refused to contribute. I happened, soon after, to attend one of his sermons,...I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. 1 had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold.... | |
 | 1818 - 594 pages
...every street." The following anecdote is at once characteristic of the preacher and of the hearer. " I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons,...four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold : as lie proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...but he was resolute in his first project, rejected my counsel, and I therefore refused to contribute. I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons,...get nothing from me: 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,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...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 in...soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another ftroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver; and he finished.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1820 - 856 pages
...but he was resolute in his first project, rejected my counsel, and I therefore refused to contribute. I happened, soon after, to attend one of his sermons,...soften, and concluded to give the copper ; another * One of his flights of oratory, not in the best taste, is related on Hume's authority " After a solemn... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1820 - 660 pages
...but he was resolute in his first project, rejected my counsel, and I therefore refused to contribute. I happened, soon after, to attend one of his sermons,...dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded 1 began to soften, and concluded to give the copper ; another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1820 - 516 pages
...but he was resolute in his first project, rejected my counsel, and I therefore refused to contribute. I happened, soon after, to attend one of his sermons,...collection, and I silently resolved he should get * Mr. Winter relates a curions anecdote of his preaching at a maid-servant who had displeased him by... | |
 | 1821 - 732 pages
...an anecdote equally characteristic of the preacher and of himself. ' I happened,' says the Doctor, ' to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which...finish with a collection, and I silently resolved lie should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper, money, three or four silver... | |
 | Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 206 pages
...an anecdote equally characteristic of the preacher and of himself. " I happened," says the doctor, " to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which...dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I hegan to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of... | |
 | Thousand notable things - 1822 - 604 pages
...an anecdote equally characteristic of the preacher and of himself. ' I happened,' says the doctor, ' to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which...dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, 1 began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed... | |
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I happened soon after 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,... 
