 | Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 pages
...Stamp Act, Henry exclaimed : " Caesar had his Brutus — Charles I. his Cromwell — and George III." " Treason," cried the Speaker. " Treason ! treason \"...from every part of the House. It was one of those moments decisive of character. Henry faltered not for an instant ; but rising to a loftier attitude,... | |
 | John Frost - 1851 - 1058 pages
...on Henry's resolutions in the House of Burgesses, that gentleman went so far as to exclaim, " Caesar had his Brutus ! Charles the First his Cromwell ! and George the Third — " here he was interrupted by cries of " Treason ! Treason /" from every part of the house ; but... | |
 | Maryland. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1851 - 810 pages
...gentleman had pursued. When Patrick Henry said, in 1774, in the House of Delegates of Virginia, " Cœ*ar had his Brutus, Charles the First his, Cromwell, and George the Third may protit hy their example," he meant what he said. When the gentleman from Baltimore threatened the... | |
 | Henry Howe - District of Columbis - 1852 - 614 pages
..."P.HENRY." It was in the midst of the above-mentioned debate that he exclaimed, in tones of thunder, " Cesar had his Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell...! treason !' echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for a moment : taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1858 - 586 pages
...overwhelming eloquence in one incessant storm. In the midst of that electrifying speech he exclaimed : " Cesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and...!" cried the speaker, " Treason ! Treason !" echoed through the house. But Henry, faltering not, and rising to a loftier attitude, fixed upon the speaker... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1852 - 948 pages
...Assembly like thunder peals. In the midst of his harangue he exclaimed, in clear bell-tones, « Caasar had his Brutus Charles the First his Cromwell ; and George the Third — " « Treason /" cried the excited speaker ; and « Treason ! Treason !" was shouted from every part of the House. Henry did not... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1852 - 946 pages
...Assembly like thunder peals. In the midst of his harangue he exclaimed, in clear bell-tones, " Cffisar had his Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell ; and George the Third — " " Treason!" cried the excited speaker-; and " Treason ! Treason !" was shouted from every part of the House. Henry did not... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur, William Henry Carpenter - Virginia - 1852 - 374 pages
...comparisons. Warming with his theme, he blanched the cheeks of his auditors, by exclaiming : " Caesar had his Brutus ; Charles the First his Cromwell ; and George the Third" — " Treason ! treason !" exclaimed the speaker. " Treason ! treason !" echoed other hurgesses. Henry turned his... | |
 | William Allen Drew - Great Exhibition - 1852 - 440 pages
...Revolution, which concluded in the following emphatic words, emphatically pronounced: — " Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third " — [here Sir J. began to look grave, his son and daughter frightened, and his liveried servant enraged]... | |
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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. 
