 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...  Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate - Página 265por Orison Swett Marden - 2006 - 552 páginasPré-visualização limitada - Acerca deste livro
 | 1830 - 622 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1820 - 888 páginas
...Burgesses of Virginia (May, 1765), he exclaimed, when discanting on the tyranny of the obnoxious act, " 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 home.)... | |
 | 1820 - 866 páginas
...of Virginia (May, 17C5), he exclaimed, when discauting on the tyranny of the obnoxious act, " Cassar 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.) It was... | |
 | 1820 - 490 páginas
...; 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... | |
 | 1821 - 732 páginas
...Virginia, (May, 1765,) he exclaimed, when descanting on the tyranny of the obnoxious act, ' Ciesar 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.) It was... | |
 | 1822 - 734 páginas
...distinguished. In the very fury and whirlwind of his invective against Great Britain, he exclaimed : " Cicsar had his Brutus— Charles the First, his Cromwell — and George the Third — (" Treason," exclaimed the speaker — " treason, treason," echoed from every corner of the house.)... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - 1823 - 374 páginas
...tyranny of the obnoxious act, that he exclaimed, in a voice of thunder, and with the look of a god, " 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. — It... | |
 | Thomas Jones Rogers - 1823 - 382 páginas
...of the obnoxious act, that he exclaimed, in a voice of thunder, and with the look of a god, 'C#sar 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. It was... | |
 | 1824 - 516 páginas
...tyranny of the obnoxious act, that he exclaimed, in a voice of thunder, and with the ;look of a God, 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. It was... | |
 | 1824 - 518 páginas
...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... | |
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