 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 Seiten
...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...sentiments respecting the building in Georgia, and suspectmg a collection might be intended, had, by precaution, emptied his pockets before he came from... | |
 | Historical Society of Pennsylvania - 1853 - 472 Seiten
...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...the collector's dish, gold and all. At this sermon, (continues Franklin,) there was also one of our Club, who being of my sentiments respecting the building... | |
 | William Chambers - 1853 - 858 Seiten
...handful ol copper, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another...into the collector's dish, gold and all !" At this time there was no military defensive force in Pennsylvania. The inhabitants were mostly Quokers, and... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 430 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 428 Seiten
...four silver dollars, and five pistoles 'in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and con' eluded to give the copper; another stroke of his oratory...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... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 570 Seiten
...and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I " began to soften, and concluded to give the cop" per ; another stroke of his oratory made me " ashamed of...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... | |
 | 1853 - 418 Seiten
...three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles 182 LONGBOWISMS. in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another...ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver : mnd he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collectors dish, gold and... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 424 Seiten
...copper money, three or four silver dollars, 6 and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I began ' to soften, and concluded to give the copper ; another...stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and 6 determined me to give the silver ; and he finished { so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly... | |
 | Bristol tabernacle - 1854 - 196 Seiten
...pocket, copper and silver, besides several pistoles of gold. He writes, "As he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper ; another...pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all." Hume, the acute sceptic and historian, thus describes the closing part of a sermon he heard from him... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 Seiten
...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...admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collectors' dish, gold and all. At this sermon there was also one of our club, who, being of my sentiments... | |
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... 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, and five pistoles... 
