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Patrick Henry's eyeglasses, about 1760-1799
These spectacles played a role in Patrick Henry's theatrics
After interviewing contemporaries who had seen Patrick Henry's speeches and watched him entrance his audiences, one historian noted that, "If his remarks were to be brief, his spectacles remained on his nose. But if he ever was seen to give his spectacles a cant to the top of his wig, it was a declaration of war, and his adversaries must stand clear." |