| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Reuben Percy - 1826 - 386 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." LOGAN, THE INDIAN. Logan, the celebrated Indian chief, who had long been a zealous partizan... | |
| 1826 - 438 páginas
...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 - 540 páginas
...a tyrant ; and when, in the heat of debate, alluding to the fate of other tyrants, he exclaimed, " Caesar had his Brutus, Charles I, his Cromwell, and George III," he was interrupted by the speaker and others, with the cry of "treason." Mr. Henry, pausing for a moment, and fixing his eye... | |
| Timothy Pitkin - 1828 - 542 páginas
...tyrant; and when, in the heat of debate, alluding to the fate of other tyrants, he exclaimed, " Ctesar- had his Brutus, Charles I, his Cromwell, and George III," he was interrupted by the speaker and others, with the cry of "treason." Mr. Henry, pausing for a moment, and fixing his eye... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 494 páginas
...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 day, and were... | |
| 1830 - 256 páginas
...instant, but rising in 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." A GOOD RETORT. A lawyer said to a witness, " You have a plentiful supply of sap in your head;"... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1831 - 626 páginas
...and fixing on tho speaker an eye of fire, he finished his sentence with the firmest emphasis — u may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." From this period, Mr. Henry became the idol of the people of Virginia ; nor was his name confined... | |
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