Honour was its superior; and justice was superior to honour.

I dined once with his lordship and the churchwardens, and found that vestry honours and vestry appetites are not exclusively English characteristics.

All the honour due to the author will be exclusively Mr. Walter Savage Landor's; and, as it is certainly "not worth five shillings," no one will think it "worth borrowing or putting on.

The sole honour he brought from Shrewsbury was the reputation of being captain of the school in the art of practical joking.

Whether it be in council or in fight, His country's honour is his chief delight; Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed, Which may the like in coming ages breed.

That honour was a principle, not a matter of circumstance, and that treachery was in itself disgraceful, whether it was profitable or nothere were hard sayings for a native of Chiltistan.

That seems to mean that honour is not a universal obligation.

It is his fate To be a needle in a world of hay, Where honour is the flattery of the fool; Sin, a tame bauble; lies, a tiresome jest; Virtue, a silly, whitewashed block of wood For words to fell.

Your father knew that honour was the aim Kings level at.

Now, Sir, was I not right when I said that honour and loyalty are the essential qualities in our profession?

She is my Heir, and if she may be ravish'd thus from my care, farewel Nobility; Honour and Blood are meer neglected nothings.

Charles's counsellors at Breda had instilled into him principles which he seems afterwards to have cherished through life: "that honour and conscience were bugbears, and that the king ought to govern himself rather by the rules of prudence and necessity.

The scarlet honour of your peaceful gown, Are the most pleasing objects I can find, Charms to my sight, and cordials to my mind: When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale, My heaving wishes help to fill the sail; And if my prayers for all the brave were heard, Cæsar should still have such, and such should still reward.

The stationer, the bootmaker, the glover, the perfumer, people who had courted Lady Lesbia's custom with an air which implied that the honour of serving fashionable beauty was the first consideration, and the question of payment quite a minor pointthese now began to ask for their money in the most prosaic way.

The PRESIDENT of the commons, who always in a committee takes his seat as another member, rose here, and spoke to the following effect, his honour being paymaster of the navy:Mr. Chairman, the nature of the employment with which I am intrusted makes it my duty to endeavour that this question may be clearly understood, and the condition of the seamen, with regard to the reception of their pay, justly represented.

Honour is not the word; there was too much heart in the affair for so cold a term; the negro, whatever may be his faults, almost always possessing an affectionate heart.

My honour is dearer to me than life, and I will unhesitatingly sacrifice the one to preserve the other.

Your Honour is so expert, Sir!I wish, if I may be so bold, your lady has not some cause to be jealous.

The honour of it is more then the thing, Thomas, since I did not bribe the Secretarys steward or what servant else so ever hath the government of his Lordship therein.

reck not of the after-time, Honour may be deem'd dishonour, loyalty be called a crime.

That, your Honour, was ingratitude sharper than a serpent's tooth.

I have always applied to good breeding, what Addison in his Cato says of honour: "Honour's a sacred tie; the law of Kings; The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens Virtue where it meets her; And imitates her actions where she is not."

" Having set these down, one by one, upon the dresser, he wheeled, and addressed himself to Bellew, as follows: "Mr. Bellew, sir,this evening being the anniversary of a certainevent, sir, I will ask youto excuse mewhile I make the necessary preparationsto honour this anniversaryas is ever my custom."

Honour is a title or grace given by the spirit of virtue to the desert of valour in the defence of truth; it is wronged in baseness and abused in unworthiness, and endangered in wantonness and lost in wickedness.

"'Honour among thieves' is an old saying, but the pickpocket who stole Lieut.-Commander Grieve's watch during his reception was an exception to the rule.