| 1824 - 758 pàgines
...contribute. 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. 1 had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold.... | |
| 1818 - 594 pàgines
...the hearer. " 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...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... | |
| 1818 - 588 pàgines
...contribute. 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...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 pàgines
...contribute. 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...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...contribute. 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...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 pàgines
...contribute. 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...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 pàgines
...contribute. 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 * Mr. Winter relates a curions anecdote of his preaching at a maid-servant who had displeased him by... | |
| Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 206 pàgines
..." I happened," says the doctor, " to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently...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 pàgines
...' I happened,' says the doctor, ' to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently...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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