Honour
,—a quality that will carry a patriot to Botany Bay, a vulgar prejudice: in high life it means the debauching your neighbour’s wife or daughter, killing your man, and being a member of the Jockey Club, and Brooke’s gaming-house.
,—a quality that will carry a patriot to Botany Bay, a vulgar prejudice: in high life it means the debauching your neighbour’s wife or daughter, killing your man, and being a member of the Jockey Club, and Brooke’s gaming-house.
Entry taken from Political Dictionary, edited by Charles Pigott from prison and printed in 1795.