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Honesto: Un buen poema es honesto y dice la verdad.
veruscio Diary Entry veruscio 2008
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Nam qua mens hominis quiscere non possit, sed continuo circa varias cogitationes discurrat, nisi honesto aliquo negotio occupetur, ad melancholiam sponte delabitur.
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Quare hoc tempore Author eram honesto studioso, _Arngrimo Ionæ_ F. vt reuolutis scriptorum monumentis, qui de Islandia aliquid scripserunt, errores & mendacia solidis rationibus detegeret.
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Quare hoc tempore Author eram honesto studioso, _Arngrimo Ion鎋 F. vt reuolutis scriptorum monumentis, qui de Islandia aliquid scripserunt, errores & mendacia solidis rationibus detegeret.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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On the day that King Amadeo set foot on Spanish soil Prim was assassinated; it was perfectly well known at whose instigation, and the man whom the Spaniards themselves said was _demasiado honesto_ (too honourable) for the hotch-potch of political parties into which he was thrown without a friend or helper, began his vain effort to rule a foreign nation in a constitutional manner.
Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin
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He was _demasiado honesto_ for the crew he had been called to command, and he left the country to tumble about in its so-called "republican" anarchy until another military
Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin
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He came of a gentle family of moderate means: "tenui vico, at honesto genere."
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All graduates on admission were required to take a solemn oath that they would handle the books _modo honesto et pacifico, nulli librorum per turpitudinem aut rasuras abolitionesque foliorum, præjudicium inferendo_.
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Mentis, et incoctum generoso pectus honesto, which the stern moralist [4] declared to afford the noblest qualification for approaching the presence of the gods.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various
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Dilectissima filia mea Anna, cui nomen in baptismo indidit bonæ memoriæ primogenita vestra, desponsata est honesto iuveni Martino Luxsolario (nam solem etiam pro insigni habet), doctoris Martini filio, petente id sua matre per cognatos et affines, et suadentibus communibus amicis nostris.
The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell
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