 | James Grahame - 1836 - 486 ページ
...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... | |
 | Henry Winsor - 1839 - 250 ページ
...Third — (" Treason," cries the speaker, " treason, treason," echoes from every part of the house,) may profit by their example: if this be treason, make the most of it." Mr. Henry continues a member of the Colonial legislature, and, in 1774, is one of the deputies to the Continental... | |
 | Grenville Mellen - 1839 - 934 ページ
...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 the province of Massachusetts the dissatisfaction at the passing the stamp act was strong,... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1839 - 304 ページ
...attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he finished his sentence with the firmest emphasis, " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." He was the first governor of Virginia after the declaration of independence, and a member of... | |
 | 1841 - 618 ページ
...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." ' — Win, p. 83. Henry had hitherto confined his practice to the county courts, but in the... | |
 | John Niles Hubbard - 1842 - 322 ページ
...faltering in the least, he assumed a loftier attitude, and in a deeper and more impressive tone added, " may profit by their example ! If this be treason make the most of it." [ Wirt's life of Patrick Henry.] These resolutions, issuing from the heart of Virginia, together... | |
 | Emma Willard - 1843 - 500 ページ
...a fim public ty™t ! and alluding to the fate of other tyrants, he exclaimopposition. ed, " Caesar had his Brutus, Charles I. his Cromwell, and George III." — he was interrupted by the cry of " treason !" — pausing for a moment, he deliberately concluded — " may profit by their example... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 ページ
...never faltering for a moment, and fixing an eye of fire on the speaker, " and George the Third — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." The resolutions of Henry involved, as has been said, the principle of independence ; but the... | |
 | Henry Brown - 1844 - 526 ページ
...the most determined fire, hi' finished his sentence with the firmest emphasis : 'and George the Third may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most ofit.'': The resolutions, after a stormy debate, passed by a small majority, and the last by a majority... | |
 | John Frost - 1844 - 494 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... | |
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