 | Henry Howe - 1852 - 614 стор.
...house. Henry faltered not for a moment : 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." Henceforth Mr. The old Court-Houtt, Hanover. [The Hanover Conrt-House Is over a century old.... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1852 - 948 стор.
...beaming with the fire of exalted genius, upon Robinson, the speaker, he concluded the sentence with, " ed a similar resolution on the 17th of May,3 but going further of it."1 The moment Henry sat down, Randolph, Pendleton, Bland, Wythe, and others, who afterward became... | |
 | 1852 - 394 стор.
...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... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 802 стор.
...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... | |
 | Emma Willard - 1852 - 560 стор.
...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 ;... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 414 стор.
...firmly on the Speaker, he concluded * Life by Wirt, p. 16. 1765. DR. FRANKLIN. 91 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.... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 416 стор.
...not 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.... | |
 | John Frost - 1853 - 786 стор.
...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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1854 - 264 стор.
...; but rising to a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of flashing fire, continued, " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." PROVERBS. A STITCH in time saves nine. Good words cost nothing, but are worth much. Have not... | |
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Treason!" cried the speaker —"Treason, treason," echoed from every part of the house. 
