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...ore.’ ‘My God, how did they execute him?’ asked Gavin. ‘By impalement, the Moghul punishment for treason. I fear that it has driven the little prin... ... telegram from Calcutta informed the Resident that both prisoners had been tried, found guilty of treason and executed by firing squad. ‘They receiv...

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...prevalent in his day, but was condemned by the wisest, that it was classed with treason and poisoning. And it is notorious that magic was long used a...

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...authorities. In Jerusalem my intercessions are ridiculed: John is branded treasonous. Authorities are evasive or antagonistic. They ridicule our wis... ...thers fighting in the Confederate army there are those who accuse Mary of treason. Injustice can strike. And the sad face, the sad thoughts continue.... ...thies. To impugn the loyalty of my spouse is tantamount to accusing me of treason. When I learned that a secret committee had been formed to investi... ... own knowledge, know that it is untrue that any member of my family holds treasonable communication with the enemy.” I walked out. I have heard no... ...ting at my feet, I read: ...After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, forei...

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...g to use its massive arsenal in the struggle to forcibly end slavery. Captured and brought to trial at nearby Charles Town, Brown was found guilty of treason. One month before his execution, John Brown addressed a courtroom in Charlestown, West Virginia, defending his role in the action at Harper's Ferry. Henry David Thoreau, although himself did not favor violence, praise...

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...400's, a time of knighthood and chivalry. Myles Falworth is eight years old when news comes they must flee their home. His blind father is accused of treason. We see Myles grow up, train as a knight, and with perseverance, clear his father of any wrong-doing and restore their family name. (Summary by Laura Caldwell)...

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...ho outgunned the nationalist forces. The Queen was arrested and brought before a military tribunal. The Republic found her guilty of “misprision of treason” (branding her a traitor) and fined her $5,000 and five years of hard labor (Liliuokalani 1990 [1898]:289). Instead of hard labor though, they decided to imprison her in a corner room of Iolani Palace for eight month...

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...venture novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1922. It concerns the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish physician, who is convicted of treason in the aftermath of the Monmouth rebellion in 1685, and enslaved on the Caribbean island of Barbados. He escapes and becomes a pirate. [wikipedia] Captain Blood was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated swashbuckl...

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...tle to your Crowne. King. We thanke you both, yet one but flatters us, As well appeareth by the cause you come, Namely, to appeale each other of high treason. Coosin of Hereford, what dost thou object Against the Duke of Norfolke, Thomas Mowbray? Bul. First, heaven be the record to my speech, In the devotion of a subjects love, Tendering the precious safetie of my Prince, ...

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...reth by the cause you come, 32 Namely, to appeale each other of high treason. 33 Coosin of Hereford, what dost thou obiect 34 Agains... ... Which else would post, vntill it had return’d 62 These tearmes of treason, doubly downe his throat. 63 Setting aside his high bloods ro... ...erge 99 That euer was suruey’d by English eye, 100 That all the Treasons for these eighteene yeeres 101 Complotted, and contriued in t... ...490 As now our flesh is banish’d from this Land. 491 Confesse thy Treasons, ere thou flye this Realme, - 11 - The life and death of King Ric... ... Condition of the worst degree, 1220 In grosse Rebellion, and detested Treason: 1221 Thou art a banish’d man, and here art come 1222 Befor... ...nd darts his Lightning through eu’ry guiltie hole, 1400 Then Murthers, Treasons, and detested sinnes 1401 (The Cloake of Night being pluckt fr... ... Night, 1405 Shall see vs rising in our Throne, the East, 1406 His Treasons will sit blushing in his face, 1407 Not able to endure the sig... ...s, 1679 That euery stride he makes vpon my Land, 1680 Is dangerous Treason: He is come to ope 1681 The purple Testament of bleeding Warre;... ...North. Well haue you argu’d Sir: and for your paines, 2071 Of Capitall Treason we arrest you here. 2072 My Lord of Westminster, be it your cha...

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...athing epigrams against him. Claudius, by comparison, has executed 40 Senators for treason. Nero even helped the Jews - a scourge of the Roman empi... ...ld. Fathers were even allowed to execute their grown sons for serious offenses like treason. Each house maintained a cult of ancestors and hearth go...

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...im, “You will bear the shame you have brought on your family as the charges of murder and treason are laid upon you and all your evil relations,” Al...

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...ournaments and jousts and deeds of arms, both for life and death, he passed all other knights, and at no time he was never overcome but if it were by treason or enchantment; so Sir Launcelot increased so marvellously in worship, and in honour, therefore is he the first knight that the French book maketh mention of after King Arthur came from Rome....

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... all other knights, and at no time he was never overcome but if it were by treason or en- chantment; so Sir Launcelot increased so marvellously in wor... ...ound. That me repenteth, said Launcelot, of your hurt, but I was adread of treason, for I was late be- guiled, and therefore come on your way into you... ...unto thee, said Sir Launcelot, thou an armed knight to slay a naked man by treason. Thou gettest none other grace, said Sir Phelot, and therefore help... ...er, said Sir Launcelot, for with falsehood ye would have had slain me with treason, and now it is fallen on you both. And then she swooned as though s... ...en of arms after us riding. And so Sir Launcelot turned him and thought no treason, and therewith was the knight and the lady on one side, and suddenl...

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... Consolation of Philosophy was written during Boethius' one year imprisonment while awaiting trial, and eventual horrific execution, for the crime of treason by Ostrogothic King Theodoric the Great. Boethius was at the very heights of power in Rome and was brought down by treachery. It was from this experience he was inspired to write a philosophical book from prison refle...

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...laws of men, he is Antichrist, he does violence to nature, and is guilty of treason against the Divine Majesty, because this word stands: “What God h...

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...ene, with tongue in Venome steep’d, 1552 ’Gainst Fortunes State, would Treason haue pronounc’d? 1553 But if the Gods themselues did see her th... ... 2045 Bap. Oh confound the rest: 2046 Such Loue, must needs be Treason in my brest: 2047 In second Husband, let me be accurst, 2048 ... ...ur person: 2868 There’s such Diuinity doth hedge a King, 2869 That Treason can but peepe to what it would, 2870 Acts little of his will. T... ...Hamlet Shakespeare: First Folio 3804 Hurts the King. 3805 All. Treason, Treason. 3806 King. O yet defend me Friends, I am but hurt...

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... shall not steal" is superseded by one's moral obligation to spy for one's nation. Treason is when we prefer universal ethical principles to deriv...

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...rer, and his man PETER, guarded.] SUFFOLK: Because here is a man accused of treason: Pray God the Duke of York excuse himself! YORK: Doth any one ac... ... Please it your majesty, this is the man That doth accuse his master of high treason: His words were these: that Richard, Duke of York, Was rightful h... ...d PETER strikes him down .] HORNER: Hold, Peter, hold! I confess, I confess treason. [Dies.] YORK: Take away his weapon. Fellow, thank God, and the ... ...th runs the water where the brook is deep; And in his simple show he harbors treason. The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb. No, no, my sover... ...ll I speak my conscience, Our kinsman Gloucester is as innocent From meaning treason to our royal person As is the sucking lamb or harmless dove: The... ...oo soon, Unless thou wert more loyal than thou art: I do arrest thee of high treason here. GLOUCESTER: Well, Suffolk, thou shalt not see me blush Nor... ...II, scene i 40 The purest spring is not so free from mud As I am clear from treason to my sovereign: Who can accuse me? wherein am I guilty? YORK: ’... ...y guiltless life. I shall not want false witness to condemn me, Nor store of treasons to augment my guilt; The ancient proverb will be well effected: ... ...is railing is intolerable: If those that care to keep your royal person From treason’s secret knife and traitors’ rage Be thus upbraided, chid and rat...

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...r Armorer and his Man. 573 Suff. Because here is a man accused of Treason, 574 Pray God the Duke of Yorke excuse himselfe. 575 ... ...our Maiestie, this is the man 579 That doth accuse his Master of High Treason; 580 His words were these: That Richard, Duke of Yorke, 581 ... ...er, where the Brooke is deepe, 1348 And in his simple shew he harbours Treason. 1349 The Fox barkes not, when he would steale the Lambe. 1350... ...ience, 1363 Our Kinsman Gloster is as innocent, 1364 From meaning Treason to our Royall Person, 1365 As is the sucking Lambe, or harmeles... ...se thou wert more loyall then thou art: 1395 I doe arrest thee of High Treason here. 1396 Glost. Well Suffolke, thou shalt not see me blu... ... The purest Spring is not so free from mudde, 1400 As I am cleare from Treason to my Soueraigne. 1401 Who can accuse me? wherein am I guiltie?... ... I shall not want false Witnesse, to condemne me, 1469 Nor store of Treasons, to augment my guilt: 1470 The ancient Prouerbe will be well e... ...ble. 1473 If those that care to keepe your Royall Person 1474 From Treasons secret Knife, and Traytors Rage, 1475 Be thus vpbrayded, chid,... ... This first yeare of our raigne. 2620 And now henceforward it shall be Treason for any, 2621 That calles me other then Lord Mortimer. 2622 ...

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...tage, or that with both He labor’d in his country’s wreck, I know not; But treasons capital, confess’d and proved, Have overthrown him. MACBETH: [As... ...th one that saw him die: who did report That very frankly he confess’d his treasons, Implored your highness’ pardon and set forth A deep repentance: n... ... scales against either scale; who committed Macbeth Act II, scene iii 22 treason enough for God’s sake, yet could not equivo cate to heaven: O, co... ... Awake, awake! Ring the alarum bell. Murder and treason! Banquo and Donalbain! Malcolm! awake! Shake off this downy sleep, ... ...hand of God I stand; and thence Against the undivulged pretence I fight Of treasonous malice. MACDUFF: And so do I. ALL: ... ...ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave; After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign...

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... pavilion by the king. With that they heard a great noise, and many cried, Treason, treason! Alas, said King Arthur, we be betrayed! Unto arms, fellow... ...s name is Sir Damas, and he is the falsest knight that liveth, and full of treason, and a very coward as any liveth, and he hath a younger brother, a ... ...have delivered us, but for be- cause this Damas is so false and so full of treason we would never fight for him to die for it. And we be so lean for h... ...thur beheld the ground so sore be-bled he was dismayed, and then he deemed treason that his sword was changed; for his sword bit not steel as it was w... ...d Excalibur, and overcame his enemy. T hen Sir Accolon began with words of treason, and said, Knight, thou art overcome, and mayst not en dure, and al... ...of the Lake beheld Arthur, how full of prowess his body was, and the false treason that was wrought for him to have had him slain, she had great pity ... ...ou this sword, and by whom ye had it. CHAPTER XI How Accolon confessed the treason of Morgan le Fay, King Arthur’s sister , and how she would have don... ...n hurt as I am, had it not been mine own sword, that was stolen from me by treason; and this battle was ordained aforehand to have slain me, and so it... ... and prowess, that any man or woman might find in their hearts to work any treason against you. I shall reward them, said Arthur, in short time, by th...