 | Joseph Emerson - 1851 - 212 ページ
...the first, his Cromwell — and George the third " (Treason, cried the speaker, — Treason, treason, echoed from every part of the house.) Henry faltered not for an instant ; hut rising to a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of the most determined fire, he... | |
 | John Frost - 1851 - 1058 ページ
...; 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 - 1851 - 614 ページ
...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.... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 ページ
...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... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1852 - 614 ページ
...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.... | |
 | 1852 - 880 ページ
...Bruins — Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third — " cries of "Treason! Treason !" came from every part of the House. Henry faltered not for an instant ¡ but rising to a loftier altitude, and fixing on the Speaker an eye of the most determined fire, he finished... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 802 ページ
...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... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1852 - 948 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... | |
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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. 
