 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.  The Every Day Book for Youth - Page 253by Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 415 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Children's poetry - 1854 - 264 pages
...treason ! treason !" echoed from every part of the house. It was one of those trying moments which are decisive of character. Henry faltered not for an instant...who gives it. Men apt to promise, are apt to forget. Speak well of your friend ; of your enemy, say nothing. Too much familiarity breeds contempt. LAST... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
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