 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 416 pages
...not 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.... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 414 pages
...firmly on the Speaker, he concluded * Life by Wirt, p. 16. 1765. DR. FRANKLIN. 91 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.... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1853 - 786 pages
...presence of mind, he resumed the thread of his discourse with these words* — " George the Third, I say, may profit by their example. If this' be treason, make the most of it !" We may judge of the temper which Henry found or created in an Assembly which could embrace... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Children's poetry - 1854 - 264 pages
...; but rising to a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of flashing fire, continued, " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." PROVERBS. A STITCH in time saves nine. Good words cost nothing, but are worth much. Have not... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Mexico - 1855 - 516 pages
...the Third,"— here pausing a moment until the cry of " Treason, treason," had ended, — he added, " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it" . 17. "After a violent debate, the first five resolutions t wot were carried* by the bold eloquence... | |
 | John Philip Sanderson - Naturalization - 1856 - 404 pages
...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 - Blacks - 1856 - 846 pages
...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... | |
 | John Philip Sanderson - Naturalization - 1856 - 380 pages
...Demosthenes,' when he exclaimed, 'Caesar 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... | |
 | George Tucker - History - 1856 - 672 pages
...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,... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - Orators - 1857 - 544 pages
...instant; but 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)...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.... | |
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Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third" — " Treason !" cried the speaker — " Treason, treason !" echoed from every part of the house. 
