 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 426 pages
...contribute. 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...four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the coppers. Another stroke of his oratory made... | |
 | Clergymen - 1868 - 198 pages
..."I happened," says Franklin, "to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived that he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently...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... | |
 | David Thomas - 1868 - 404 pages
...eloquence. "I happened to attend one of the sermons of Mr. Whitfield, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently...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... | |
 | Russell Frank Weigley, Nicholas B. Wainwright, Edwin Wolf - History - 1982 - 870 pages
...in Philadelphia, but he attended one of Whitefield's sermons on the subject, and as he tells it: ... I silently resolved he should get nothing from me....four silver Dollars, and five Pistoles in Gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the Coppers. Another Stroke of his Oratory made... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - Humor - 1985 - 236 pages
...similar event; Zall, BF Laughing, 54-55: "In the course of [George Whitefield's sermon] I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently...four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the coppers. Another stroke of his oratory made... | |
 | Roger Finke, Rodney Stark - Religion - 1992 - 352 pages
...his purse: "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...four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften and concluded to give him the coppers. Another stroke of his oratory... | |
 | Ronald L. Byrnside - Music - 1997 - 168 pages
...Philadelphia, where Benjamin Franklin reported, "I perceived that he intended to finish with a Collection. I silently resolved he should get nothing from me....four silver Dollars, and five Pistoles in Gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give him the Coppers. Another Stroke of his Oratory... | |
 | David C. Hammack - Business & Economics - 1998 - 508 pages
...contribute. 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...four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the coppers. Another stroke of his oratory make... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 404 pages
...attend one of his Sermons, in the Course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a Collection, & I silently resolved he should get nothing from me....four silver Dollars, and five Pistoles in Gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the Coppers. Another Stroke of his Oratory made... | |
 | Walter I. Trattner - History - 2007 - 469 pages
...wrote: I happened ... to attend one of [Whitefield's] . . . sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently...four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the coppers. Another stroke of his oratory made... | |
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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,... 
