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  • In such situations I would be more particularly and 'noblement', civil, easy, and frank with the man whose designs I traversed: this is commonly called generosity and magnanimity, but is, in truth, good sense and policy.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

  • In such situations I would be more particularly and 'noblement', civil, easy, and frank with the man whose designs I traversed: this is commonly called generosity and magnanimity, but is, in truth, good sense and policy.

    Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1751 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

  • In such situations I would be more particularly and noblement, civil, easy, and frank with the man whose designs I traversed: this is commonly called generosity and magnanimity, but is, in truth, good sense and policy.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • Colette Beaune, "Mourir noblement à la fin du Moyen Age," in La Mort au Moyen

    The Funeral of Duke Philip the Good Edward A. Tabri 1990

  • "Pourvu qu'ils vivent noblement et ne fassent aucun acte dérogeant à noblesse."

    The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair

  • A cette vue, qui me fit trembler pour le bien de l'église, je m'arretai tout court; je serrai promptement mes ducats; je tirai quelques reaux, et, m'approchant du chapeau, disposé à recevoir la charité des fidèles effrayés, je les jetai dedans l'un après l'autre, pour montrer au soldat que j'en usois noblement.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various

  • "_Afin que les entreprises honorables et les nobles aventures et faicts d'armes soyent noblement enregistres et conserves, je vais traiter et raconter et inventer ung galimatias. _"

    Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

  • "_Afin que les entreprises honorables et les nobles aventures et faicts d'armes soyent noblement enregistrés et conservés, je vais traiter et raconter et inventer ung galimatias_."

    Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

  • When the two kings, riding abreast _moult noblement_, followed by the Dukes of Clarence and Bedford, entered

    The Story of Paris Thomas Okey 1893

  • Elle fleurira ici aussi longtemps que le Canada existera, et sera chérie, comme aux anciens jours, le furent les lis-d'or, pour lesquels tant de vos ancêtres versèrent si noblement leur sang.

    Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses John Douglas Sutherland Campbell 1879

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