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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... "
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ... - Page 88
by Benjamin Franklin - 1818
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 15

England - 1824 - 758 pages
...my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As lie proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give...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...
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The Analectic Magazine ...: Comprising Original Reviews ..., Volume 11

1818 - 588 pages
...destitute of materials and workmen, and it was proposed to send them from Philadelphia at a great expense, I thought it would have been better to have built...concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratorymade me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver, and he finished B0 admirably,...
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The Life of Wesley: And the Rise and Progress of Methodism, Volumes 1-2

Robert Southey - Methodism - 1820 - 516 pages
...1 have nothing more against her.'" nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money 4 three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in...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...
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The Life of Wesley: And the Rise and Progress of Methodism, Volume 2

Robert Southey - Evangelists - 1820 - 642 pages
...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 in...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...
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The Life of Wesley: And the Rise and Progress of Methodism, Volumes 1-2

Robert Southey - Methodism - 1820 - 856 pages
...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 in...soften, and concluded to give the copper ; another * One of his flights of oratory, not in the best taste, is related on Hume's authority " After a solemn...
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The Life of Wesley: And the Rise and Progress of Methodism, Volume 2

Robert Southey - Evangelists - 1820 - 660 pages
...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 in gold. As he proceeded 1 began to soften, and concluded to give the copper ; another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed...
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The Edinburgh Monthly Review, Volume 5

1821 - 732 pages
...I silently resolved lie should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper, money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in...; 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...
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The Percy anecdotes, by Sholto and Reuben Percy. (Eloquence).

Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 206 pages
...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 in gold. As he proceeded, I hegan to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of...
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A thousand notable things, embracing a collection of scarce receipts, &c. To ...

Thousand notable things - 1822 - 604 pages
...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 in gold. As he proceeded, 1 began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 15

Scotland - 1824 - 792 pages
...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 in...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...
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