 | England - 1824 - 758 pages
...soften, and concluded to give the copper ; another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver; and he finished...wholly into the collector's dish, gold§ and all.' " + Mr Winter relates a curious anecdote of his preaching at a maid- servant who had displeased him... | |
 | John Edwards Caldwell - 1818 - 780 pages
...soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished...who being of my sentiments respecting the building at Georgia, and suspecting a collection might be intended, had by precaution emptied his pockets before... | |
 | Robert Southey - Evangelists - 1820 - 642 pages
...soften, and concluded to give the copper ; another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished...wholly into the collector's dish, gold * and all." No wonder that such a preacher should be admired and followed in a country where the habits of the... | |
 | Robert Southey - Methodism - 1820 - 856 pages
...tiling he ever saw or heard in any other preacher. stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver; and he finished...wholly into the collector's dish, gold* and all." No wonder that such a preacher should be admired and followed in a country where the habits of the... | |
 | 1821 - 732 pages
...soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the 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... | |
 | Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 206 pages
...soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished...this sermon there was also one of our club ; who, heing of my sentiments respecting the building in Georgia, and suspecting a collection might he intended,... | |
 | Scotland - 1824 - 792 pages
...soften, and concluded to give the copper ; another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver; and he finished...wholly into the collector's dish, gold§ and all.' " + Mr Winter relates a curious anecdote of his preaching at a maid-servant who had displeased him... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1825 - 582 pages
...strok " his oratory made me ashamed of that, and " termined me to give the silver; and he fifli " ed so admirably, that I emptied my pocket " wholly into...respecting the "building in Georgia, and suspecting a collec" tion might be intended, had by precaution '* emptied his pockets before he came from " home... | |
 | 1829 - 140 pages
...soften, and concluded to give the copper ; another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver; and he finished...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... | |
 | George Ramsay - Anecdotes - 1828 - 654 pages
...soften, and concluded to give the copper: another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished...collector's dish, gold and all ! At this sermon there was one of our club, who, being of my sentiments respecting the building in Georgia, and suspecting a collection... | |
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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 his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give... 
