 | James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 486 pages
...presence of mind, he resumed the thread of his discourse, with these words, — "George the Third, I say, may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it!" We may judge of the temper which Henry found, or created in an assembly which could embrace... | |
 | Grenville Mellen - United States - 1839 - 934 pages
...trying moments which are decisive of character. Henry faltered not for an instant ; but rising to a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye...by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." ' In the province of Massachusetts the dissatisfaction at the passing the stamp act was strong,... | |
 | Jesse Olney - United States - 1839 - 304 pages
...Henry faltered not for an instant, but taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he finished his sentence with the firmest emphasis,...by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." He was the first governor of Virginia after the declaration of independence, and a member of... | |
 | Henry Winsor - United States - 1839 - 250 pages
...Third — (" Treason," cries the speaker, " treason, treason," echoes from every part of the house,) may profit by their example: if this be treason, make the most of it." Mr. Henry continues a member of the Colonial legislature, and, in 1774, is one of the deputies... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1841 - 682 pages
...trying moments which is decisive of character. Henry faltered not for an instant ; but rising to a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye...emphasis)— may profit by their example. If this he treason, make the most of it." ' — Wirt, p. 83. Henry had hitherto confined his practice to the... | |
 | Jesse Olney - United States - 1842 - 288 pages
...faltered not for an instant. but taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fir<% lie finished his sentence with the firmest emphasis, "...by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." He was the first governor of Virginia after the declaration of independence, and a member of... | |
 | John Niles Hubbard - Frontier and pioneer life - 1842 - 322 pages
...faltering in the least, he assumed a loftier attitude, and in a deeper and more impressive tone added, " may profit by their example ! If this be treason make the most of it." [ Wirt's life of Patrick Henry.] These resolutions, issuing from the heart of Virginia, together... | |
 | Emma Willard - United States - 1843 - 500 pages
...was 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 ;... | |
 | Henry Brown - Illinois - 1844 - 524 pages
...trying moments which are decisive of character. Henry faltered not for an instant ; but rising to a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye...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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 370 pages
...trying moments which are decisive' of character. Henry faltered not for an instant ; but rising to a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye...determined fire, he finished his sentence with the fiercest emphasis,) — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." Sustained... | |
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Treason!" cried the speaker —"Treason, treason," echoed from every part of the house. 
