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Willis has ungratefully and wantonly insulted, would be most pernicious to the peace of this colony, and an act of the most aggravating injustice to those faithful servants of the Crown against whom he has, for unworthy purposes, dishonourably laboured to excite the prejudice and hatred of the ignorant and malicious."
You have refused, and you have justified your refusal by several statements: first, that I was an impostor; second, that our countries were at war; and third No, I will speak, said I; 'you can answer when I have done, and third, that I had dishonourably killed or was said to have done so the man Goguelat. Now, my dear fellow, these are very awkward grounds to be taking.
I now followed the Baron, who led the way rapidly, with the determination not even to spare his life if I ran any risk of being treated dishonourably. We entered the Baron's own room, the door of which he locked behind him.
And so she was; for she thought now that he must either be trifling with her, or, if serious, must be acting most dishonourably; her good opinion of him must be destroyed for ever, if, as now it seemed, he wished to make an impression upon her heart yet still she tried not to think, not to see it.
Mr Monckton thus dishonourably, thus barbarously to betray me! to turn against me the very confidence I had reposed in his regard for me! and make use of my own trust to furnish the means to injure me!"
The Haiducks, or outlawed robbers, who during the first quarter of the present century infested the woods of Servia, resembled the Caterans of the Highlands of Scotland, being as much rebels as robbers, and imagined that in setting authority at defiance they were not acting dishonourably, but combating for a principle of independence.
You have refused, and you have justified your refusal by several statements: first, that I was an impostor; second, that our countries were at war; and third No, I will speak," said I; "you can answer when I have done, and third, that I had dishonourably killed or was said to have done so the man Goguelat. Now, my dear fellow, these are very awkward grounds to be taking.
In hoping that the gods may injure a man, and that you may help him, you deal most dishonourably with him, and you do not treat the gods themselves fairly, for you give them the odious part to play, and reserve the generous one for yourself: the gods must do him wrong in order that you may do him a service.
'But pray do not you think Sharply behaved extremely wrong? 'Shamefully so, indeed, said the gentleman. 'I never could have any opinion of a boy 'who could act so dishonourably, said the lady, 'let his cleverness be what it would. 'Pray, Frank, tell me some more, said the little boy. 'More! replied Frank, 'I could tell you an hundred such kind of things.
When Armies fight, there is on one side, or both, a running away; yet when they do it not out of trechery, but fear, they are not esteemed to do it unjustly, but dishonourably. For the same reason, to avoyd battell, is not Injustice, but Cowardise.
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