 | Jest book - 1864 - 396 pàgines
...not for an instant; 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. DCCCIV. — ROGERS — POET AND SKIPPER. \ ROGERS used to say that a man who attempts to read... | |
 | Montroville Wilson Dickeson - 1865 - 374 pàgines
...he was interrupted by the cry of " treason" — pausing for a moment, he deliberately concluded — "may profit by their example; if this be treason, make the most of it." Non-importation agreements were entered into ; combinations formed against eating lamb, in... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1867 - 672 pàgines
...fixed his eye oo the Speaker, and then calmly concluded the broken sentence — "And George the Third may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." * Fifty-six year* afterwards, we find the venerable Thomas Jefferson recalling the effect which,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 514 pàgines
...all parts of the house ; but Henry, fixing his eye on the Speaker, continued without faltering — " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it" The effect was electrical, aud the resolutions were adopted, though one of them was afterwards... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1867 - 464 pàgines
...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." • Miya I?. "After a violent debate, the first five resolutions ». whatwai -were carried'... | |
 | Edward M. Pierce - 1867 - 1030 pàgines
...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" Henry served his country in various posts, was sent to the congress at Philadelphia in 177-t,... | |
 | Christopher Looby - 1996 - 304 pàgines
...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 if it."* *I had frequently heard the above anecdote of the cry of treason, but with such variations... | |
 | Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns - 1996 - 354 pàgines
...interrupting cries of "TREASON!" in the House. "And George the Third," counters Henry above the din, "may profit by their example — if this be treason, make the most of it."12 The exchange, at least on Henrys part, is deliberately contrapuntal. The juxtaposition of... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pàgines
...Brutus; Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third ... ("Treason," cried the Speaker) ... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it. PATRICK HENRY, (1736-1799) US statesman. Quoted in Patrick Henry, set. 2, William Wirt (1818).... | |
 | Alan Axelrod - 2000 - 426 pàgines
...provocatively: Caesar had his Bnitus — Charles the first, his Cromwell — and George the third — may profit by their example .... If this be treason, make the most of it. The resolves were passed on May 30, 1765. In the meantime, back up north, John Adams, who in... | |
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... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it. 
