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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,... "
Benjamin Franklin: A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation, One ... - Trang 137
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin

Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 522 trang
...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...silver; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all." Another hearer who agreed with Franklin in...

The Ecclesiastic [afterw.] The Theologian and ecclesiastic [afterw ..., Tập 7-8

1849 - 814 trang
...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...pockets wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all. At this sermon there was also one of our club, who, being of my sentiments respecting the building...

The Clergy of America: Anecdotes Illustrative of the Character of Ministers ...

Joseph Belcher - 1849 - 490 trang
...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...; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish — gold and all. At this sermon, there was also one of our...

Sketches of the life and labours of the rev. George Whitefield. To which are ...

1849 - 320 trang
...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...silver; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all ! At this sermon there was also one of our club,...

History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Paris, Tập 1

Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1849 - 602 trang
...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...; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collection, gold and all." It appears, however, that in general his manner was...

The Clergy of America: Anecdotes Illustrative of the Character of Ministers ...

Joseph Belcher - 1849 - 1188 trang
...handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, arid five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, ] began to soften, and concluded to give the copper....silver; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish — gold and all. At this sermon, there was also one of our...

The Rhetorical Reader: Consisting of Instructions for Regulating the Voice ...

Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 320 trang
...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...

Lives of Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of America

James Wynne - 1850 - 372 trang
...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...silver, and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all." Franklin, whose mind was almost instinctively...

Cyclopædia of moral and religious anecdotes

Kazlitt Arvine - 1850 - 882 trang
...had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. py opp pocket wholly into the collector's dish, — gold and all. At this sermon there was also one of our...

Fourth Reader: For Common Schools and Academies

Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 288 trang
...silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give him the copper; another stroke of his oratory made me...; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's 7 dish, gold and all. At this sermon," continued Franklin, " there...




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