 | 586 pages
...for an instant falter, but fixing his eye firmly on the Speaker, he concluded his sentence thus " — may profit by their example. If this be treason make the most of it !" Indolence and aversion to reading seemed almost as natural to Henry's mind as powers of debate.... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - United States - 1851 - 212 pages
...— Treason, treason, echoed from every part of the house.) Henry faltered not for an instant ; hut rising to a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker...he finished his sentence with the firmest emphasis. " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.'' From this period, Mr. Henry... | |
 | John Frost - 1851 - 1058 pages
...; but fixing his eye firmly on the speaker, and raising his voice, he finished the sentence with " may profit by their example ! if this be treason, make the most of it." On receiving intelligence of the passage of these resolutions, the deputy-governor immediately... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1851 - 614 pages
...falter, but CHAP, • XLIII fixing his eye firmly on the Speaker, he concluded ' . his sentence thus " may profit by their example. " If this be treason, make the most of it ! " Indolence and aversion to reading seemed almost as natural to Henry's mind as powers of debate.... | |
 | American literature - 1852 - 880 pages
...from every part of the House. Henry faltered not for an instant ¡ but rising to a loftier altitude, and fixing on the Speaker an eye of the most determined fire, he finished the sentence with vehement emphasis — " George the the Third — may profit by their example. If... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1852 - 802 pages
...for .in instant falter, but fixing his eye firmly on the speaker, he mr-- cluded his sentence thus " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it !" ' The Regency Bill, which followed the illness of the monarch in 1765, elicited the want of... | |
 | 1852 - 394 pages
...house ; but fixing his eye firmly on the speaker, and raising his voice, he finished the sentence with "may profit by their example ! if this be treason, make the most of it." It is a common and useful saying that we ought not to tell tales out of school, and applied... | |
 | Emma Willard - United States - 1852 - 560 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 Howe - District of Columbis - 1852 - 614 pages
...and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he finished his sentence with the firmest emphasis) — " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." Henceforth Mr. The old Court-Houtt, Hanover. [The Hanover Conrt-House Is over a century old.... | |
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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. 
