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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 ... - Seite 88
von Benjamin Franklin - 1818
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Oratory and Orators

William Mathews - 1878 - 476 Seiten
...silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give him the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me...pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all." The same sermon was heard by a friend of Franklin's, who, agreeing with him about the location of the...
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The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection ..., Band 2

Robert Chambers - 1883 - 866 Seiten
...' 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...oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to F've the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's...
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Oratory and Orators

William Mathews - 1878 - 464 Seiten
...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...proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give him the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the...
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Benjamin Franklin, printer's boy, statesman, philosopher, and patriot

John Stevens C. Abbott - 1879 - 418 Seiten
...copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold, (about twenty-five dollars). As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to...silver; and he finished so admirably that I emptied my pockets wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all. " Some of Mr. Whitefield's enemies affected...
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A History of England in the Eighteenth Century

William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1879 - 728 Seiten
...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...oratory made me ashamed of that and determined me to give%the silver, and he finished so admirably that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's...
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Lectures on the History of England

M. J. Guest - 1879 - 698 Seiten
...nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and fire pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften,...copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of this, and determmed me to give the silver, and ha finished so admirably that I emptied my pocket wholly...
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Eighteen Centuries of the Church in England, Ausgabe 75

Alexander Hugh Hore - 1881 - 728 Seiten
...writes Franklyn (who had resolved to give nothing) in his Autobiography, "a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in...pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all." was induced to go to America, and, unlike Wesley, met with great success there ; but shortly afterwards...
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Beeton's Complete orator, including the art of public speaking, and British ...

Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1881 - 336 Seiten
..." 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...to give the copper ; another stroke of his oratory make me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably that I...
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The book of clerical anecdotes, by Jacob Larwood

Herman Diederik J. van Schevichaven - 1881 - 386 Seiten
...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 began to soften, and resolved to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined...
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Vocal and Action-language Culture and Expression

Edward Napoleon Kirby - 1884 - 250 Seiten
...the appeal was made for the orphanage. Mr. Franklin said : " I had in my pocket a handful of copper, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in...proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give him my copper ; another stroke of his eloquence made me ashamed of that, and I concluded to give him...
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