 | 1830 - 622 pages
...Speaker an eye of the most deter' mined fire, he finished his sentence with the firmest emphasis,) « — may profit by their example ! If this be treason, make the ' most of it.' Virginia is understood to pride herself on her paramount right to provide the Union with orators... | |
 | 1820 - 490 pages
...; but rising to a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye flashing with fire, continued, "may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." NAVAL ORATORY. Admiral Blake, when a captain was sent with a small squadron to the West Indies... | |
 | Statesmen - 1824 - 518 pages
...the 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." In August, 1774, the Virginia convention assembled in Williamsburg, and passed a series of... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 386 pages
...but rising to a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye flashing with fire, continued, " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." LOGAN, THE INDIAN. Logan, the celebrated Indian chief, who had long been a zealous partizan... | |
 | 1826 - 438 pages
...George the Third (" Treason !" cried the " Speaker. " Treason ! treason !" 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... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 494 pages
...cry of " treason, treason," resounding from several parts of the house, had ended — he added — " may profit by their example ; if this be treason, make the most of it." The above resolutions had no sooner passed, than they found their way into the papers of the... | |
 | American wit and humor - 1830 - 256 pages
...instant, but rising in a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye flashing with fire, continued, "may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." A GOOD RETORT. A lawyer said to a witness, " You have a plentiful supply of sap in your head;"... | |
 | William Allen - Electronic books - 1832 - 820 pages
...every part of the house. Mr. Henry finished the sentence with firm emphasis — "may profit by the example. If this be treason, make the most of it." Mr. Henry left a paper for his executors, in which he speaks of the resolutions of 1765, which closes with these words... | |
 | Art - 1832 - 616 pages
...!" here interrupted the speaker ; but, after a moment's pause, he continued, " And George the Third may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." * Early in this year the king was attacked by an indisposition of six weeks' duration, which... | |
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