But this treason on the part of the defenders of the throne was a very serious matter.

In all seriousness, there seems but one solution to the problem; and it must be found, if at all, in the proposition already stated, that treason is an individual act.

He had now to feel that treason and ingratitude are attendants on adversity, and that the worshippers of power, like the Gheber devotee, turn their faces reverently towards the rising sun.

The City of London are ready to hoist their standard; treason is the bon-ton at that end of the town; seditious papers pasted up at every corner: nay, my neighbourhood is not unfashionable; we have had them at Brentford and Kingston.

Treason is, in essence, a deliberate and violent breach of the allegiance due from a citizen or subject to his government.

" "Thou art mine to do with as I will?" "I am the Master's!" "Treason to me, Rrisa, is treason to thy holy laws.

Now treason and cowardice are two epaulets to which a general sometimes becomes reconciled, the soldiernever.

To lose such an opportunity for a fight was a height of absurdity for which treason and cowardice were inadequate terms.

"Treason," cut in Sir John Johnson, "was the undoing of a certain noble duke in Queen Anne's time.

"Who can perswade, when treason is aboue reason; and mighte ruleth righte; and it is had for lawfull, whatsoever is lustfull; and commotioners are better than commissioners; and common woe is named common weale?"SIR JOHN CHEKE.

He has reason; never treason more became a traitor bold.

Treason is an offense against sovereignty, and sovereignty must reside with the power to punish it.