| 1830 - 622 דפים
...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 דפים
...; 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 דפים
...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... | |
| Benjamin Franklin French - 1825 - 378 דפים
...war which finally separated the two countries, and gave independence to ours." From this period he became the idol of the people of Virginia; nor was his name confined to his native state. His light and heat were seen and felt throughout the continent ; and he was every where regarded as the... | |
| 1826 - 438 דפים
...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... | |
| Reuben Percy - 1826 - 386 דפים
...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... | |
| Timothy Pitkin - 1828 - 542 דפים
..."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 דפים
...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... | |
| George Smeeton - 1830 - 282 דפים
...war which filially separated the two countries, and gave independence to ours.' Prom this period he became the idol of the people of Virginia ; nor was his name confined to his native state. His light and heat were seen and felt throughout the continent ; and he was every where regarded as the... | |
| 1830 - 256 דפים
...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;"... | |
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