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" Shortly after I Came in one of the members stood up and said he had read that in former times tarquin and Julus had their Brutus, Charles had his Cromwell, and he Did not Doubt but some good american would stand up, in favour of his Country... "
The Causes of the War of Independence: Being the First Volume of a History ... - Page 155
by Claude Halstead Van Tyne - 1922 - 499 pages
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The American Historical Review, Volume 26

John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1921 - 934 pages
...I Came in one of the members stood up and said he had read that in former times tarquín and Julus had their Brutus, Charles had his Cromwell, and he Did not Doubt but some good american would stand up, in favour of his Country, but (says he) in a more moderate manner,...
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George Washington ...

Rupert Hughes - 1927 - 746 pages
...as follows: "One of the members stood up and said he had read that in former times tarquin and Julus had their Brutus, Charles had his Cromwell, and he...some good American would stand up in favor of his Conntry, but (says he) in a more moderate manner. And was going to continue, when the Speaker of the...
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The American Colonies: From Settlement to Independence

Richard C. Simmons - History - 1981 - 452 pages
...24 May 1765 reported that Patrick Henry, "in the heat of passion," declared that "Tarquin and Julius had their Brutus, Charles had his Cromwell and he Did not Doubt but some good american would stand up, in favour of his Country." This violent language offended many...
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The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution

History - 1953 - 346 pages
...Brutus, Charles had his Cromwell, and he Did not Doubt but some good american would stand up, in favour of his Country, but (says he) in a more moderate manner,...up had spoke traison, and was sorey to see that not 3 Maryland Historical Magazine, 46 (1951), 74. 4 Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry...
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The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies, 1760-1785

Don Cook - History - 1995 - 446 pages
...Frenchman's account, Henry blazed out at King George and declared that "in former times, Tarquin and Julius had their Brutus, Charles had his Cromwell, and he...American would stand up, in favor of his country." At this point, the Frenchman recorded, Henry was stopped by the speaker of the house, who called him...
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Eloquence is Power: Oratory & Performance in Early America

Sandra M. Gustafson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 320 pages
...afterward. The Frenchman recorded Henry saying that "he had read that in former times tarquin and Julus had their Brutus, Charles had his Cromwell, and he Did not Doubt but some good american would stand up, in favour of his Country." Called down for trea63. Although...
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A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic

John Ferling - History - 2003 - 576 pages
...after I Came in one of the members stoop up and said he had read that in former times tarquin and |ules had their Brutus, Charles had his Cromwell, and he Did not Doubt but that some good american would stand up, in favour of his Country, but fsays hel in a more moderate...
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Prologue to Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766

Edmund Sears Morgan - History - 1959 - 184 pages
...after I Came in one of the members stood up and said he had read that in former times tarquin and Julus had their Brutus, Charles had his Cromwell, and he Did not Doubt but some good american would stand up, in favour of his Country, but (says he) in a more moderate manner,...
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The Real Revolution: The Global Story of American Independence

Marc Aronson - Globalization - 2005 - 272 pages
...the English Civil War: "In former times Charles had his Cromwell, and he [Henry] did not doubt but that some good American would stand up, in favor of his country." In other words, a tax imposed on Americans was the kind of oppression that had led good Englishmen...
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The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When

Ralph Keyes - Reference - 2007 - 416 pages
...after I Came in one of the members stood up and said he had read that in former times tarquin and Julus had their Brutus, Charles had his Cromwell, and he Did not Doubt but soje good americans would stand up in favour of his Country, but (says he) in a more moderate manner,...
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