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The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the ... - Page 393
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The Clergy of America: Anecdotes Illustrative of the Character of Ministers ...

Joseph Belcher - Clergy - 1849 - 490 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....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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History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Paris, Volume 1

Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1849 - 602 pages
...Whitefield's 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....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 collection,...
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Sketches of the life and labours of the rev. George Whitefield. To which are ...

1849 - 320 pages
...the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved that he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket...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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The Rhetorical Reader: Consisting of Instructions for Regulating the Voice ...

Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1835 - 320 pages
...finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a 65 handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars,...oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so ad70 mirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's...
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The Clergy of America: Anecdotes Illustrative of the Character of Ministers ...

Joseph Belcher - Clergy - 1849 - 1188 pages
...one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived lie intended to finish with ;i collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me....handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, arid five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, ] began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another...
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Lives of Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of America

James Wynne - 1850 - 372 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....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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Cyclopædia of moral and religious anecdotes

Kazlitt Arvine - Anecdotes - 1850 - 882 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....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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Fourth Reader: For Common Schools and Academies

Henry Mandeville - Readers (Secondary) - 1851 - 288 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 had in my pocket n handful of copper money, three or four 6 silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded,...
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The Select Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Autobiography

Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 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....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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Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Volume 1

Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania - 1853 - 472 pages
...the fact thus : 398 in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me....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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