 | William Wirt - 2004 - 320 strani
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 | R. B. Bernstein - 2004 - 258 strani
...hated stamps. In a fiery speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses, Patrick Henry declared, "Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the first, his Cromwell, and George the third may profit by their example " The young Jefferson, standing in the foyer and listening, was dazzled... | |
 | Eliot Clarke - 2003 - 290 strani
...approved the tax. Patrick Henry added vehemence by exclaiming in the Virginia House of Burgesses: "Ceasar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell and George the Third" (cries of "Treason!" echo through the house), but Henry continued, "may profit by their example. If... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 460 strani
...resolutions against the stamp act and made the speech, now lost, which contained the famous passage, "Caesar had his Brutus; Charles the First his Cromwell ; and George the Third" [a pause, while the house and speaker cried "Treason I Treason !"] "may profit by their example. If... | |
 | George Anastaplo - 2005 - 918 strani
...1765, on the Stamp Act) : It was in the midst of this magnificent debate, while he [Patrick Henry] was descanting on the tyranny of the obnoxious Act,...in a voice of thunder, and with the look of a god, "Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the first, his Cromwell — and George the third — ('Treason,'... | |
 | Alf J. Mapp - 2003 - 196 strani
...Henry shouted that the Stamp Act was tyrannical and then, with mounting emphasis, cried out: "Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third — " "Treason!" shouted the Speaker of the House. "And George the Third," finished Henry, "may he never have either."... | |
 | Andrew Levy - 2005 - 340 strani
...House of Burgesses for rebellion against the conglomeration of taxes known as the Stamp Act — "Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the first, his Cromwell, and George the third," he was reputed to have said, before cries of "Treason!" compelled him to calmer attitudes — three... | |
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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. 
