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Of one thing I have a comforting certainty -- that wherever we may go or stay, the decree which moves or fixes us will and must be the 'wisest virtuousest discreetest best!' ...
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Send her up here; she shall board in the minister's family; and his daughter Esther, who is wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best, shall help keep her in order.
Oldtown Folks 1869
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Seems madam I know not seems, 127. wisest virtuousest best, 238.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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She moved not without a crowd of adulators, with whom all that she said, or did, or looked, was “fairest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.”
Isabella. A Novel 1823
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All of us may know much of what is "wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best," in obedience to them; but leaving the open day, we enter at once into thickest night.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
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"making a beast of hisself," he was one of the most virtuousest of men; and finally wound up by a minute medical detail of Johnny's chilblain, accompanied by a slight retrospective sketch of Mary Anne's departed hooping-cough.
Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil Frank E. Smedley 1835
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Governor was the sweetest; and virtuousest and excellentest man in the whole country. "
The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance John Turvill Adams
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Of one thing I have a comforting certainty ” that wherever we may go or stay, the decree which moves or fixes us will and must be the 'wisest virtuousest discreetest best!' ...
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898
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Cap, Jasper Western is as free as the most virtuousest of the Delaware warriors; and if you crave to see a truly honest man, you must go among that tribe to discover him. "
Pathfinder; or, the inland sea James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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