 | 1826 - 438 pages
...to that memorable exclamation of Mr. Henry, now become almost too familiar for quotation : " Cassar had his Brutus, Charles the First his " Cromwell, and George the Third (" Treason !" cried the " Speaker. " Treason ! treason !" echoed the House ; )— " may profit by their... | |
 | William Wirt - Funeral sermons - 1826 - 690 pages
...to that memorable exclamation of Mr. Henry, now become almost too familiar for quotation : " Csesar had his Brutus, Charles " the First his Cromwell, and George the Third— (" Treason !" cried the Speaker. " Treason ! trea" son !" echoed the House ;)—may profit by their... | |
 | William Pulleyn - London (England) - 1830 - 402 pages
...House of Burgesses of Virginia, he exclaimed, when descanting on the tyranny of the obnoxious act, " 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. It was... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...of the obnoxious act, that he exclaimed, in a voice of thunder, and with the look of a god, " Csesar 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. It was... | |
 | Art - 1832 - 616 pages
...the lower house of representatives at Virginia, Patrick Henry, a popular orator, exclaimed, " Cassar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third—" Cries of " Treason 1" here interrupted the speaker ; but, after a moment's pause, he continued, " And... | |
 | Art - 1832 - 592 pages
...the lower house of representatives at Virginia, Patrick Henry, a popular orator, exclaimed, " Coesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third—" Cries of " Treason !" here interrupted the speaker ; but, after a moment's pause, he continued, " And... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Almanacs - 1834 - 432 pages
...Burgesses, of Virginia, in May, 17C5, he exclaimed, when descanting on the tyranny of the obnoxious act, " 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. It was... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 pages
...midst of this magnificent appeal that Henry is said to have exclaimed, in à voice of thunder, ' Cœsar 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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Almanacs - 1834 - 440 pages
...Virginia, in May, 1765, he exclaimed, when descanting on the tyranny of the obnoxious act, " Ceesar 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.... | |
 | Samuel Farmer Wilson - United States - 1836 - 396 pages
...debate. Transported by the fervor of his zeal beyond the bounds of prudence, he exclaimed, "Csesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third"—" Treason, treason," resounded from all parts of the house ;—but, without pausing or quailing for a... | |
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one of the American delegates, at the meeting of the Continental Congress said, during a debate on the Stamp Act, " Julius Caesar had his Brutus ; Charles the First his Cromwell ; and George the Third " here he was stopped by cries of treason, and then... 
