 | 1866 - 824 páginas
..." 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 bin oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably... | |
 | 1846 - 644 páginas
...1 had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five gold pistoles. the club, who being of my sentiments respecting^he building in Georgia, and suspecting a collection... | |
 | 1847 - 666 páginas
...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, and concluded...our club ; who being of my sentiments respecting the bnilding in Georgia, and suspecting a collection might be intended, had by precantion emptied his pockets... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1847 - 472 páginas
...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, and concluded...pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all."t No wonder that such a preacher should be admired and * One of his flights of oratory, not in... | |
 | Kazlitt Arvine - 1848 - 908 páginas
...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, and concluded...our club; who, being of my sentiments respecting the buildingin Georgia, ami suspecting acollection might be intended, had. by pré- j caution, emptied... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 522 páginas
...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, and concluded...pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all." Another hearer who agreed with Franklin in relation to the asylum, no less a man than Thomas Hopkinson,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1849 - 602 páginas
...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, and concluded...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... | |
 | 1849 - 814 páginas
...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, and concluded...silver, and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pockets wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all. At this sermon there was also one of our club,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 320 páginas
...I had in my pocket a 65 handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded...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... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 páginas
...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, and concluded...pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all." Franklin, whose mind was almost instinctively turned towards philosophical pursuits, felt the want... | |
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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... 
