...master-words of raillery, when the excited assembly interrupted him with the cry of "Treason! treason!" —"may profit by their example. If this be treason make the most of it! " The Apollo Room of the' Raleigh Tavern is an apartment in another timehonored old building...

...not for an instant; 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. DCCCIV. — ROGERS — POET AND SKIPPER. \ ROGERS used to say that a man who attempts to read...

...he 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." Non-importation agreements were entered into ; combinations formed against eating lamb, in...

...the Third,"— here pausing a moment until the cry of " Treason, treason," had ended, — he added, " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." • Miya I?. "After a violent debate, the first five resolutions ». whatwai -were carried'...

...for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it" Henry served his country in various posts, was sent to the congress at Philadelphia in 177-t,...

...all parts of the house ; but Henry, fixing his eye on the Speaker, continued without faltering — " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it" The effect was electrical, aud the resolutions were adopted, though one of them was afterwards...

...interrupting cries of "TREASON!" in the House. "And George the Third," counters Henry above the din, "may profit by their example — if this be treason, make the most of it."12 The exchange, at least on Henrys part, is deliberately contrapuntal. The juxtaposition of...

...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 if it."* *I had frequently heard the above anecdote of the cry of treason, but with such variations...

...Brutus; Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third ... ("Treason," cried the Speaker) ... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it. PATRICK HENRY, (1736-1799) US statesman. Quoted in Patrick Henry, set. 2, William Wirt (1818)....

...provocatively: Caesar had his Bnitus — Charles the first, his Cromwell — and George the third — may profit by their example .... If this be treason, make the most of it. The resolves were passed on May 30, 1765. In the meantime, back up north, John Adams, who in...