 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,...  The Edinburgh Monthly Review - Page 1831821Full view - About this book
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1856 - 286 pages
...the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection; 5 and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four 6 silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1857 - 706 pages
...common-place preacher. ' I had in my pocket,' writes the American, in his fascinating Autobiography, 'a handful of copper "money, three or four silver...ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; aftd he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and... | |
 | Evangelists - 1857 - 540 pages
...the cffcirse 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...pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and determined to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1858 - 414 pages
...the course of which 1 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...; 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... | |
 | William C. Conant - Conversion - 1858 - 472 pages
...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...pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and determined to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined... | |
 | William C. Conant - Conversion - 1858 - 480 pages
...four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and determined to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory...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,... | |
 | William C. Conant - Conversion - 1858 - 468 pages
...began to soften, and determined to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me asha*ned of that, and determined me to give the 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,... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - Baptists - 1859 - 854 pages
...the course of which I percelved he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful...that, and determined me to give the silver, and he fmished so admirably that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all. At this... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - 1859 - 992 pages
...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...money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles irt gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - Baptists - 1859 - 856 pages
...the course of which I perccived 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, andflve pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another... | |
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