Soldier And Patriot the Story of George Washington
The book Soldier And Patriot the Story of George Washington was written by author Frances May Synge Owen Here you can read free online of Soldier And Patriot the Story of George Washington book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Soldier And Patriot the Story of George Washington a good or bad book?
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There was great tolling of bells and burning of effigies in the New England colonies. At Boston the ships displayed their colours but half-mast high ; many shops were shut, funeral knells resounded from the steeples, and there was a grand auto-da-fe, in which the promoters of the Act were paraded, and suffered martyrdom in effigy. Among those men who remonstrated most strongly against the Act was Patrick Henry, a young lawyer, who had just taken his seat in the House of Burgesses. He startled h...is hearers in a speech against the taxation of America, by winding up with a turn of phrase for which they were not prepared. " Caesar, " he cried, in a voice of thunder and DR. FRANKLIN BEFORE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. 67 with an eye of fire " Csesar had his Brutus, Charles the First had his Cromwell, and George the Third " " Treason !" here exclaimed the Speaker. " Treason, treason !" re-echoed from every part of the house. Henry did not for an instant falter, but fixing his eye firmly on the Speaker, he concluded his sentence thus " may profit by their example.
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