 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,...  Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life - Page 78by James Boswell - 1887Full view - About this book
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 424 pages
...get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a 6 handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, 6 and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I began...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... | |
 | 1853 - 418 pages
...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...money, 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... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 570 pages
...sermons, in the course of XIX " 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 hand" ful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, " and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1855 - 522 pages
...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...give the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that J emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all. At thig sermon there was also one... | |
 | Theology - 1856 - 604 pages
...course of which I perceived that he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved that he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket...copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five gold pistoles. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper; another stroke... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1856 - 286 pages
...of his sermons, in 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...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
...of his sermons, in the cffcirse of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I...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
...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...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 Buell Sprague - Baptists - 1859 - 854 pages
...one of his sermons, in the course of which I percelved he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I...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... | |
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