 | Panorama - Epigrams, English - 1809 - 368 pages
...o'er them prevails, Hisdeceitin their hcarts,md his sling in their tails. TREASON. TREASON does never prosper : What's the reason ? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason. UPON A GNAT BURNT IN A CANDLE. TRIFLING iusect r that art now But an airy gnat below, Ah ! what folly... | |
 | Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - France - 1818 - 436 pages
...till after the battle of Culloden, in 1746, the spirit of faction often got the * Treason does never prosper : what's the reason ? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason. better of the spirit of justice. A price of 30,0007. was put on the head of Prince Edward, and, much... | |
 | Scotland - 1821 - 800 pages
...I must postpone what I have further to urge till another op. portunity. TREASON. Treason doth never prosper — what's the reason ? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason. WE hare discovered a plot. Not a dark-lantern business of gunpowder and matches, like Guy Fawkes's,... | |
 | George Wentworth - English poetry - 1824 - 378 pages
...a mutual friendship show, Man makes false money, money makes man so. TREASON. " Treason does never prosper : What's the reason ? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it Treason." CHARACTER OF AN OLD RAKE. I " Scorn'd by the wise, detested by the good, Nor understanding aught, nor... | |
 | English wit & humor - 1825 - 204 pages
...immediately withdrawn. He said, Every man should pay for his luxuries. Epigram. Treason does never prosper — What's the reason ? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason. Anotlter. The lovely hair that Galla wears Is hers — Who could have thought it ? She swears 'tis... | |
 | James Stuart - United States - 1833 - 552 pages
...rebels, must necessarily have considered the revolution as a rebellion. " That treason never prospers, what's the reason ? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason." Success alone justified the means by which the American, as well as the British, revolutions were effected.... | |
 | John Humphreys Parry - Wales - 1834 - 486 pages
...judgment, we willingly concede to them * Hence the well-known English epigram : — Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason. 230 the merit of having conscientiously endeavoured to establish the liberty they professed to venerate.... | |
 | 1835 - 454 pages
...cause, but for the reason contained in the following epigram : — " Treason can't prosper, some say ; what's the reason ? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason." The conclusion, therefore, seems to be irresistable, that a social state being the natural state of... | |
 | Francis William Newman - Causation - 1838 - 208 pages
...may usefully fix on the memory the importance of attending to this subject. Treason never prospers : What's the reason ? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it Treason. On hearing the first words, Treason never prospers, we take them for the assertion of a real truth,... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - History - 1843 - 248 pages
...best vindicated by the success which has attended the experiment : That treason never prospers — what's the reason ? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason ! Supped with Dr. Wainwright, who discussed with me very candidly the different condition of England... | |
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What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason. 
