 | 1830 - 622 ページ
...instant ; but rising to a loftier ' attitude, and fixing on the Speaker an eye of the most deter' mined fire, he finished his sentence with the firmest emphasis,)...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 ページ
...; 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... | |
 | Thomas Jones Rogers - 1823 - 382 ページ
...decisive of character. Henry faltered not for an instant; but rising to a loftier attitude, and fixing »n the speaker an eye of the most determined fire, he...firmest emphasis) may profit by their example. If this he treason, make .the most of it." In August. 1774, the Virginia Convention assembled in Williamsburg,... | |
 | Thomas Jones Rogers - 1823 - 376 ページ
...decisive of character. Henry faltered not for an instant; hut rising to a loftier attitude, and fixing »n the speaker an eye of the most determined fire, he...firmest emphasis) may profit by their example. If tins be treason, make the most of it." In August, 1774, the Virginia Convention assembled in Williainsbnrg,... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - 1823 - 374 ページ
...of character. —Henry faultered not for an 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 einphasis) may profit liy their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.'' After this debate,... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 386 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - 1828 - 542 ページ
..."treason." Mr. Henry, pausing for a moment, and fixing his eye on the speaker, deliberately concluded, " may profit by their example ; if this be treason, make the most of it." Mr. Henry left the assembly the evening after the passage of the resolutions ; and the next... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 494 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1830 - 480 ページ
...decisive of character. Henry faltered not for an instant ; hut rising to a loftier attitude, and fixing on the Speaker an eye of the most determined fire,...finished his sentence with the firmest emphasis — " may we profit hy their example I If this he treason, make the most of it."— Edinburgh Review. Piping... | |
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... Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell — and George the Third 
