 | Charles Jacobs Peterson - Military biography - 1848 - 586 pages
...orator was in the full torrent of declamation against the tyrannical act, when he exclaimed, " Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third" — But here he was intermpted by loud cries of "treason, treason," resounding through the house. Henry... | |
 | George White - Georgia - 1849 - 716 pages
...Butgesses, when he introduced his resolutions on the Stamp Act. It was here that he said, " Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell — and George the Third" upon which the Speaker cried out " Treason !" " Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house.... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - United States - 1850 - 216 pages
...was descanting on llic tyranny of the obnoxious act, that he exclaimed, in a voice of thunder, "Cesar 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.) Henry faltered not for an instant ; but... | |
 | Joshua Leavitt - 1850 - 324 pages
...1765, descanted on the oppressiveness of the Stamp Act, he exclaimed, in a loud tone : "Caesar — had his Brutus; Charles the First — his Cromwell...and George the Third" "Treason!" cried the speaker. " Treason .' TREASON ! TREASON !" reechoed from every part of the house ; when Mr. Henry, rising to... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 618 pages
...in others. 1*. HENRY." It was in the midst of the debate abovementioned, that he exclaimed, " Cavar 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. Henry faltered not for an instant ;... | |
 | Maryland. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1851 - 810 pages
...gentleman had pursued. When Patrick Henry said, in 1774, in the House of Delegates of Virginia, " Cœ*ar had his Brutus, Charles the First his, Cromwell, and George the Third may protit hy their example," he meant what he said. When the gentleman from Baltimore threatened the... | |
 | John Frost - 1851 - 1058 pages
...on Henry's resolutions in the House of Burgesses, that gentleman went so far as to exclaim, " Caesar had his Brutus ! Charles the First his Cromwell ! and George the Third — " here he was interrupted by cries of " Treason ! Treason /" from every part of the house ; but... | |
 | Henry Howe - District of Columbis - 1852 - 614 pages
..."P.HENRY." It was in the midst of the above-mentioned debate that he exclaimed, in tones of thunder, " Cesar had his Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell...George the Third — (' Treason !' cried the speaker — ' Treason ! treason !' echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for a moment : taking... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1858 - 586 pages
...overwhelming eloquence in one incessant storm. In the midst of that electrifying speech he exclaimed : " Cesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and...George the Third [" Treason !" cried the speaker, " Treason ! Treason !" echoed through the house. But Henry, faltering not, and rising to a loftier... | |
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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. 
