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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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As Various as Their Lands: the Everyday Lives of Eighteenth-century ...

Stephanie Grauman Wolf - 1994 - 348 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 the coppers. Another stroke of his oratory made me asham'd of that, and determin'd me to give the silver;...
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Beloved Bethesda: A History of George Whitefield's Home for Boys, 1740-2000

Edward J. Cashin - 2001 - 304 Seiten
...from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pestles in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the coppers. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined to give the silver;...
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American Colonies: The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the ...

Alan Taylor - 2002 - 548 Seiten
...services determined to give nothing to the collection. 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 the Coppers. Another Stroke of his Oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the Silver;...
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Protestantism in America

Randall Balmer - 2005 - 320 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 the Coppers. Another stroke of his Oratory made me asham'd of that, and determin'd me to give the Silver;...
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Protestantism in America

Randall Herbert Balmer, Lauren F. Winner - 2002 - 322 Seiten
...resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my Pocket a Handful of Copper Money, three or lour 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 me asham'd of that, and determin'd me to give the Silver;...
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

Walter Isaacson - 2004 - 628 Seiten
...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 me ashamed of that,...pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all. Franklin was also impressed with the transforming effect that Whitefield had on Philadelphia's citizenry....
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

Walter Isaacson - 2003 - 607 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 the coppers. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver;...
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A Benjamin Franklin Reader

Walter Isaacson - 2005 - 576 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 the coppers. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver;...
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The Founders on God and Government

Daniel L. Dreisbach, Mark David Hall, Jeffry H. Morrison - 2004 - 340 Seiten
...pocket. Whitefield's oratory soon shamed Franklin into giving his silver dollars, too; "and he finish'd so admirably, that I emptied my Pocket wholly into the Collector's Dish, Gold and all." A friend of Franklin's, a fellow member of the Junto, was also at the sermon. Like Franklin, he had...
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Growing in the Grace of Giving

Larry D. Allen - 2005 - 286 Seiten
...silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in rny pocket a handful of copper money, three of four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As...proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the coppers. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver;...
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