 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 494 pages
...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." The talents of Mr. Jefferson, which were early well known, permitted him not long to remain in a private... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1833 - 366 pages
...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 next day, in the absence of Mr. Henry, the fifth resolution \\zs rescinded ; but that and the others... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1835 - 358 pages
...Treason, treason," resounding from several parts of tl.e house, had ended — he added — " may profit by their example; if this be treason, make the most of it." The next day, in the absence of Mr. Henry, the fifth resolution was rescinded ; but that and the others... | |
 | Emma Willard - United States - 1843 - 500 pages
...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." The next day the members were alarmed, on considering the bold stand which they had taken ; and in the... | |
 | Robert Sears - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1844 - 514 pages
...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...collecting in the Canadas. He thundered forth to the Virginian legislature a speech which rang through the whole color nies like the summons of a nevI Demosthenes... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1843 - 434 pages
...for a moment, and fixing an eye of fire on the speaker, "and George the Third — may profit by thetr example. If this be treason, make the most of it."...of our memoir was then startled anew by the armies whicli Britain was silently collecting in the Canadas. He thundered forth to the Virginian legislature... | |
 | Henry Brown - Illinois - 1844 - 524 pages
...determined fire, he finished his sentence with the firmest emphasis : 'and George the Third may profit ly their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.'' The resolutions, after a stormy debate, passed by a small majority, and the last by a majority of one. Peyton Randolph,... | |
 | Charles Jacobs Peterson - Military biography - 1848 - 586 pages
...the speaker, c* elevated his voice while he finished the sentence, "and George the Third may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." The boldness of the man, and of his words, were electric ; not only on the Assembly, but on the people... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1852 - 802 pages
...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 good understanding... | |
 | Emma Willard - United States - 1852 - 560 pages
...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." The next day the members were alarmed, on considering the bold stand which they had taken ; and in the... | |
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Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third —may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it. 
