 | 1830 - 622 페이지
...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 페이지
...; 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 페이지
...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 resolutions,... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 386 페이지
...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 페이지
...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 - 542 페이지
..."treason." Mr. Henry, pausing for a moment, and fixing his eye on the speaker, deliberately concluded, " may profit by their example ; if this be treason, make the most of it." Mr. Henry left the assembly the evening after the passage of the resolutions ; and the next... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 494 페이지
...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... | |
 | 1830 - 256 페이지
...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 페이지
...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... | |
 | 1832 - 616 페이지
...!" here interrupted the speaker ; but, after a moment's pause, he continued, " And George the Third may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." * Early in this year the king was attacked by an indisposition of six weeks' duration, which... | |
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Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not 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... 
