"Treason" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... monarch's mighty orders! It smells of treason—on rebellion borders! 'S death, sirs! it was the Queen's fond wish as well, That Master LAWRENCE should come in! Against a queen so gentle to rebel! This ...
— Art in England - Notes and Studies • Dutton Cook
... wherefore art thou lorn Of hope and peace if Love be still thine own? For, were the wondrous vision thou hast known Indeed Love's voice and Fate's (which are the same) Then, even as surely as the vision came, So surely shall it be fulfilled, if faith Abide in thee; but if thy spirit saith Treason of Love or Fate, and unbelief House in thy heart, then surely shall swift grief Find thee, and hope (that should be as a breath Of song undying) shall even die the death, And thou thyself the death-in-life shalt see, O Prince that wast, O wanderer ...
— The Poems of William Watson • William Watson
... see cause, he is enabled to grant pardons to offenders convicted, "in all cases whatever, treason and wilful murder excepted," and even in these, has authority to stay the execution of the law, until the King's pleasure shall be signified. In case of the Governor's death, the Lieutenant Governor takes his place; and on his demise, the senior officer on the ...
— A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay • Watkin Tench
... maxims, how dangerous soever their practice to the security of the sovereign and the tranquillity of the state, they are the immediate consequences drawn from Judaism and Christianity. We find in the Old Testament that the regicide is applauded; that treason and rebellion are approved. As soon as it is supposed that God is offended with the thoughts of men,—as soon as it is supposed that heretics are displeasing to him,—it is very natural to conclude that an impious and heretical sovereign, that is to say, one who does not obey a clerical body ...
— Letters to Eugenia - or, a Preservative Against Religious Prejudices • Baron d'Holbach
... while the party were still sitting at table, the conversation turned on Arnold's treason. Mr. Lear, Washington's private secretary, was present, and after retiring he wrote down in his diary Washington's own account of that remarkable incident in our history in his own words. The extract from Mr. Lear's diary has recently been published for the first time ...
— Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 • John Frederick Schroeder and Benson John Lossing
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