...revolt against Britain. It was in that year that Patrick Henry rose in the House of Burgesses and cried, "Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third..." Here he was interrupted by cries of treason. He continued, "And George the Third may profit by their...

...Manifest Tendency to Destroy American Freedom." In the course of his speech he delivered the fiery words, "Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third..." At this point Speaker Robinson interrupted, crying out, "Treason, treason!" Henry paused and then calmly...

...Extending the generality of field experiments General notions are generally wrong. MW Montagu (1710) Caeser had his Brutus - Charles the First, his Cromwell - and George the Third . . . may profit by their example. Patrick Henry (1765) To do science is to search for repeated patterns,...

...Virginia darky rolled out in sonorous voice, with impassioned gesture : "Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell and George the Third — " "Treason ! treason !" said the speaker of the house. "May profit by their example If that be treason, make the...

...King George III. Referring to Roman and English rulers who had been assassinated, Henry cried out, "Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third may profit from their example" — meaning that George should avoid enraging a possible assassin. To...

...Patrick Henry, 29, rose in Virginia's House of Burgesses to decry taxation without representation. "Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third ..." He was interrupted by shouts of "Treason!" before he could finish, but it was clear that some...

...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...

...burned the 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...

...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...

...tyranny of the obnoxious Act, that he exclaimed, in a voice of thunder, and with the look of a god, "Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the first, his...cried the Speaker — 'treason, treason," echoed from every part of the House. — It was one of those trying moments which is decisive of character. —...