 | 1839 - 674 trang
...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 I perceived he intended to finish with u сгм-"";"n, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 trang
...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,...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... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 trang
...anecdote 4 equally characteristic of the preacher and of himself. " I happened," says the doctor, " to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which...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... | |
 | Aaron Crossley Hobart Seymour - 1840 - 584 trang
...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,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1841 - 464 trang
...attend one of Mr. Whiteficld's sermons, " in the course of which I perceived he intended to tinish with a " collection, and I silently resolved he should...had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or tour '' silver dollars, and Gve pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I " began to soften, and concluded... | |
 | 1842 - 194 trang
...resolute in his first project, rejected my counsel, and I, therefore, refused to contribute. 10. " I happened, soon after, to attend one of his sermons,...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... | |
 | Aaron Crossley Hobart Seymour - 1844 - 588 trang
...but he was resolute in his f,rst project, rejected my counsel, and I therefore refused to contribute. I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons,...g^et nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of cupper-money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold; as he proceeded I begun to soften,... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 trang
...the preacher proved an overmatch for the caution of the philosopher. "I happened," says the latter, "soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course...finish with a collection, and I silently resolved ho should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars,... | |
 | 1866 - 824 trang
...hear Whitfield preach on behalf of a charity to which he was resolved not to contribute. He says : " I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three...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... | |
 | 1846 - 644 trang
...House in Philadelphia, rather than in Georgia), and I therefore refused to contribute. I happened Boon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived that he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved that he should get nothing from... | |
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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,... 
