 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 534 páginas
...sermons far exceeded any that ever were known in a country distinguished for unmeasured benevolence. Even in times of public calamity and distress, his...hearers, not content with emptying their purses into tbe plate, sometimes threw in jewels or watches, as earnest of further benefactions. The native warmth... | |
 | Englishmen - 1863 - 912 páginas
...sermons far exceeded any that ever were known in a country distinguished for unmeasured benevolence. Even in times of public calamity and distress, his...sometimes threw in jewels or watches, as earnest of further benefactions. The native warmth of his character breathed through all his discourses, and animated... | |
 | Eclectic Society (London, England), Josiah Pratt - 1865 - 568 páginas
...multitudes assembled that it was necessary to defend the entrance of the church by guards and palisadoes. He was presented with addresses and pieces of plate...the plate, sometimes threw in jewels or watches, as earnests of further benefactions. He died exhausted, as we are told, by the fatigues of his mission,... | |
 | William John Fitzpatrick - 1869 - 326 páginas
...multitudes assembled, that it was necessary to defend the entrance of the church by guards and palisades. Even in times of public calamity and distress, his...persuasion repeatedly produced contributions exceeding twelve hundred pounds at a sermon ; and his hearers, not content with emptying their purses into the... | |
 | Charles John Abbey - 1878 - 606 páginas
...might yet command. We are told of Dean Kirwan, who had left the Roman for the English Church, that even in times of public calamity and distress, his...persuasion repeatedly produced contributions exceeding a thou1 Vol. i. 325-8, ii. 39-42. • Warl,urton an1l Hurd's Correspondente, 31. sand or twelve hundred... | |
 | Charles John Abbey, John Henry Overton - 1906 - 518 páginas
...might yet command. We are told of Dean Kirwan, who had left the Roman for the English Church, that even in times of public calamity and distress, his...into the plate, sometimes threw in jewels or watches in earnest of further benefactions.3 A sermon of Bishop Horsley once produced an effect which would... | |
 | 1814 - 544 páginas
...sermons far exceeded any that ever were known in a country distinguished for unmeasured benevolence. Even in times of public calamity and distress, his...sometimes threw in jewels or watches, as' earnest of further benefactions.' — p. 9. To this testimony we may add the panegyric of Mr, Grattan in the Irish... | |
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Even in times of public calamity and distress, his irresistible powers of persuasion repeatedly produced contributions exceeding a thousand or twelve hundred pounds at a sermon ; and his hearers, not content with emptying their purses into the plate,... 
