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Updated: June 15, 2025
When, in 1800, Bonaparte proposed to him the presidency and consulate of the United States, for life, on condition that he should sign a treaty, which made him a vassal of France, he refused, with dignity and with firmness, and preferred retirement to a supremacy so dishonestly acquired, and so dishonourably occupied.
Had our duke been cast upon the shores of England as Harold has been cast upon that of Ponthieu, I think that he would not have been so dishonourably treated by one of the English thanes as Harold has been by Count Conrad.
The second, that if any person should bee lawfully conuicted of any practise against her Maiestie, her Crowne and dignitie, to be adiudged as traitors according to the lawes of England. The third, if any should speake dishonourably of her Maiestie, the partie so offending, to loose his eares, his ship and goods, to be confiscate to the vse of the Generall.
'Then probably you do not think your estimable colleague, Mr. J.K. Rivers, behaved dishonourably in Ottawa? 'Well, hardly. I think Rivers was not justified in what he did because he was unsuccessful, that is all.
I do believe that the result will be such as to make me feel that in justice to my girl I cannot allow you to become her husband. I tell you so fairly. Should the debts you owe be simple debts, not dishonourably contracted, I will pay them." "And then she shall be mine?" "I will make no such promise. You had better go now.
I have acted as though I were free. She shook, as if a blow had fallen upon her. Then a smile came to her lips. 'You have asked her again to be your wife? 'I have. 'And she has consented? 'Because I deceived her at the same time that I behaved dishonourably to you. She fixed upon him eyes which had a strange inward look, eyes veiled with reverie, vaguely troubled, unimpassioned.
He has been murdered, foully and dishonourably, as you will doubtless murder me, and as you have killed many nobler knights and gentlemen; but others will take our places, and so the fight will go on until Scotland is free." "Scotland will never be free," the king said with angry vehemence.
Their house of cards had fallen about them, and his stubborn hopes with it. She, with her high standards, could not possibly defend could not possibly plead for a man who was behaving so shabbily, so dishonourably, except for one reason! He leapt indignantly at certainty; although it was a certainty that tortured him. "There is evidence enough!" he said, in a changed voice.
Would he have left it to them to think so dishonourably of one another, or of their new vocation, that their words were to be tried by the touchstone of oaths, when his religion was to have a greater effect than any former system of morality ever known, in the production of truth?
But, as I was saying at first, the truth as I imagine is, that whether such practices are honourable or whether they are dishonourable is not a simple question; they are honourable to him who follows them honourably, dishonourable to him who follows them dishonourably.
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