 | Charles C. B. Seymour - Biography - 1858 - 606 pages
...upon the danger which tyrants suffer from the indignation their acts provoke. " Cassar," said he, a had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third—" Here the orator was interrupted by loud cries of " Treason ! Treason ! " He paused for a moment, and... | |
 | Michael W. Doyle - History - 1986 - 412 pages
...arbitrarily interfering with the exercise of local justice.52 "Patrick Henry's Rule" holds that "Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the first, his Cromwell; and George the Third . . . may profit by their example." Imperial tyranny often results in widespread political resistance.... | |
 | 謝康基 - Semantics - 1991 - 262 pages
...ВЙ — Pravincial Convention, 1775) : "75 g ЕЕ » (Stamp Act, 1765)Ж ЛШ/ШЯЕ " ...... Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First , his Cromwell — and George the Third — may profit their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." да ° 'Й JÉ (Kennedy, JF,... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - History - 1993 - 296 pages
...in attendance, Henry concluded an attack on the Stamp Act with these words: "Tarquin and Caesar each had his Brutus— Charles the First his Cromwell and— George the Third. . . ." At that point Henry was interrupted with boos and cries of "Treason." He recovered with the... | |
 | Christopher Looby - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 304 pages
...tyranny of the obnoxious act, that he exclaimed in a voice of thunder, and with the look of a god: "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. It was one of those trying moments which is... | |
 | Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 354 pages
...the Virginia House of Burgesses in the Stamp Act crisis of 1765. When Henry proclaims that "Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third — " the sequence prompts interrupting cries of "TREASON!" in the House. "And George the Third," counters... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Alfred W. Pollard, et al. (1898). Referring to the Parson. 2 Caesar had his 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)... | |
 | Martha Finley - Juvenile Fiction - 1997 - 334 pages
...words that startled even the patriots and have been famous words ever since. They were : " ' Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third ' — just there he was interrupted by cries of ' Treason ! ' treason ! ' — ' may profit by their... | |
 | Martha Finley - Juvenile Fiction - 1997 - 306 pages
...nine years before, he had startled his hearers in the Virginia House of Burgesses by his cry, ' Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third may profit by their example ' ! " " And now he was starting the Congress at its work ! " " You are... | |
 | Sandra M. Gustafson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 320 pages
...Wirt quizzed Jefferson in 1814. This is the famous Wirt version that Jefferson authenticated: 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 an instant; but... | |
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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. 
