 | George Tucker - 1856 - Liczba stron: 672
...here the cry of " Treason [treason !" resounded on all sides — added the self-possessed orator, " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." His resolutions,2 denying the right of Parliament to lay 1 Wirt's Life of Henry. 2 May 30,... | |
 | John Philip Sanderson - 1856 - Liczba stron: 404
...Demosthenes,' when he exclaimed, ' Csesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third may profit by their example — if this be treason, make the most of it ;' with Jefferson and the signers of the Declaration of Independence ; and with Washington at... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - 1856 - Liczba stron: 846
...unmoved, and with voice unfaltering, ended the sentence with these VOL. III. R CHAP. emphatic words, — ' may profit by their example. — '-*—^-> If this be treason, make the most of it °8.' Leaving to the general historian the task of relating the further effects of Henry's influence... | |
 | Charles Wyllys Elliott - 1857 - Liczba stron: 498
...finger at him, raised his voice above the confusion-, and concluded — " And George the Third — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it !" In the face of the strongest opposition, Henry's Resolutions were passed by a small majority,... | |
 | 1857 - Liczba stron: 656
...George the Third — (' Treason ! ' cried the Speaker. ' Treason ! treason 1 ' echoed the House ;) may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." While I am presenting to yon this picture of Mr. Jefferson in his youth, listening to the almost... | |
 | 1857 - Liczba stron: 690
...George the Third — (' Treason 1 ' cried the Speaker. . ' Treason 1 treason 1 ' echoed the House ;) may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." While I am presenting to you this picture of Mr. Jefferson in his yonth, listening to the almost... | |
 | Charles Wyllys Elliott - 1857 - Liczba stron: 512
...his finger at him, raised his voice above the confusion, and concluded — " And George the Third — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it !" In the face of the strongest opposition, Henry's Resolutions were passed by a small majority,... | |
 | 1857 - Liczba stron: 650
...George the Third — (' Treason I ' cried the Speaker. ' Treason 1 treason 1 ' echoed the House ;) may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." While I am presenting to you this picture of Mr. Jefferson in his youth, listening to the almost... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - 1857 - Liczba stron: 544
...speaker an eye of the most determined fire, he finished his sentence with the firmest emphasis) — ' may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.' " On the 4th of September, 1774, the old Continental Congress met at Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia.... | |
 | William Wirt - 1858 - Liczba stron: 488
...virtuous, as those who achieved the American revolution. From the period of which we have been speaking, Mr. Henry became the idol of the people of Virginia ; nor was his name confined to Eis native state. His light and heat were seen and felt throughout the continent ; and he was every... | |
| |
Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it... 
