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Semper attonitus, semper pavidus quid dicat, faciatve: ne displiceat humilitatem simulat, honestatem mentitur.
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Fingebam honestatem plusquam virginis vestalis, intuebar oculis uxoris, addebam gestus, &c.
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Sunt sua praemia laudi, says Virgil; and so Cicero, Nihil habet natura praestantius, quam honestatem, quam laudem, quam dignitatem, quam decus, which he tells you are all names for the same thing.
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Camerarius, a contemporary of Shakespeare and a great botanist, gives a pretty plate of a man holding a Fir-cone, with this moral: "Sic ad virtutem et honestatem et laudabiles actiones non nisi per labores ac varias difficultates perveniri potest, at postea sequuntur suavissimi fructus."
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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Si ad honestatem nati sumus ea aut sola expetenda est, aut certe omni pondere gravior est habenda quam reliqua omnia.
Pelham — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Si ad honestatem nati sumus ea aut sola expetenda est, aut certe omni pondere gravior est habenda quam reliqua omnia.
Pelham — Volume 07 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Cicero, in the first of his Offices, peremptorily asserts, that nothing can be stated rightly in that subject, but by those qui honestatem propter se dicunt expetendam.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823
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Si ad honestatem nati sumus, ea aut sola expetenda est, aut certe omni pondere gravior est habenda quam reliqua omnia.
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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Primus ille actus honestatem observantiae immediate respicit y
Tractatus theologicus de charitate, in quo expenditur systema J.V. Bolgenj de amore Dei. Accedit ... Joseph Chantre Herrera, Giovanni Vincenzo Bolgeni 1792
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[94] Johannes permissione divinâ Cantuar.episcop. totius Angliæ primas cum in præsenti convocatione pie et salubriter consideratum fuit quod nonnulli sacerdotes et alii clerici ejusdem nostræ provinciæ in sacris ordinibus constituti honestatem clericalem in tantum abjecerint ac in comâ tonsurâque et superindumentis suis quæ in anteriori sui parte totaliter aperta existere dignoscuntur, sic sunt dissoluti et adeo insolescant quod inter eos et alios laicos et sæculares viros nulla vel modica comæ vel habituum sive vestimentorum distinctio esse videatur quo fiet in brevi ut a multis verisimiliter formidatur quod sicut populus ita et sacerdos erit, et nisi celeriori remedio tantæ lasciviæ ecclesiasticarum personarum quanto ocyus obviemus et clericorum mores hujusmodi maturius compescamus, _Ecclesia
The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856
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