| 586 pages
...for an instant falter, but fixing his eye firmly on the Speaker, he concluded his sentence thus " — may profit by their example. If this be treason make the most of it !" Indolence and aversion to reading seemed almost as natural to Henry's mind as powers of debate.... | |
| Joseph Emerson - United States - 1851 - 212 pages
...instant ; hut rising to a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of the most determined fire, he finished his sentence with the firmest emphasis....most of it.'' From this period, Mr. Henry became the ido! of the people of Virginia; nor was his name con fined to his native, state. His light and heat... | |
| Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 pages
...of the most determined fire, he finished his sentence with the firmest emphasis : " And George III. may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." — Memoirs of Jefferson. Louis XVI. inherited a revolution ; and as the vices of his ancestors... | |
| John Frost - 1851 - 1058 pages
...; but fixing his eye firmly on the speaker, and raising his voice, he finished the sentence with " may profit by their example ! if this be treason, make the most of it." On receiving intelligence of the passage of these resolutions, the deputy-governor immediately... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1851 - 614 pages
...falter, but CHAP, • XLIII fixing his eye firmly on the Speaker, he concluded ' . his sentence thus " may profit by their example. " If this be treason, make the most of it ! " Indolence and aversion to reading seemed almost as natural to Henry's mind as powers of debate.... | |
| Henry Howe - District of Columbis - 1852 - 614 pages
...speaker — ' Treason ! treason !' echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for a moment : taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker...by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." Henceforth Mr. The old Court-Houtt, Hanover. [The Hanover Conrt-House Is over a century old.... | |
| Emma Willard - United States - 1852 - 560 pages
...was interrupted by the cry of " treason !" — pausing for a moment, he deliberately concluded — " may profit by their example ; — if this be treason, make the most of it." The next day the members were alarmed, on considering the bold stand which they had taken ;... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1852 - 948 pages
...beaming with the fire of exalted genius, upon Robinson, the speaker, he concluded the sentence with, " ed a similar resolution on the 17th of May,3 but going further of it."1 The moment Henry sat down, Randolph, Pendleton, Bland, Wythe, and others, who afterward became... | |
| 1852 - 394 pages
...house ; but fixing his eye firmly on the speaker, and raising his voice, he finished the sentence with "may profit by their example ! if this be treason, make the most of it." It is a common and useful saying that we ought not to tell tales out of school, and applied... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1852 - 802 pages
...for .in instant falter, but fixing his eye firmly on the speaker, he mr-- cluded his sentence thus " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it !" ' The Regency Bill, which followed the illness of the monarch in 1765, elicited the want of... | |
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