As to the debt they have been saddled with, I think it would be honester to repudiate it, at least as a Debt on India.
Englishmen in those days were popular everywhere in Mohammedan lands, being looked upon as free from the political designs of the other Frank nations, and individually as honester than these in their commercial dealings.
Could he not, think you, have stooped from the cross to the ground, and have laid hold on somehonester man, if he would?
You call us theeves that may proove honester Than many goe for trewe[84] men on the shore.
Nay, this is nothing; he hath but showne A patterne of himself, what thou shalt finde In others; search through the Globe of earth, If there mongst twentie two thou doost find Honester then himself ile be buried straight.
I would he lov'd his wife; if he were honester He were much goodlier.
Yes, I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
Ay; 'tis an honester service than to meddle with thy mistress.
Marry, thou ought'st not to let thy horse wear a cloak, when honester men than thou go in their hose and doublets.
What else have they horses for, while honester men than they trudge on foot?
I have not an honester man in my camp; and he speaks for my information, not for yours.
I dare say I shall find you the better and the honester man for it many years hence; very probably the healthfuller, and the cheerfuller into the bargain.
Another has said, "He is a fool who is a grain honester than the times he lives in.
But the honester part of the Plataeans recovering from their surprise, and taking notice of the small number of the Thebans, quickly regained possession of their city by the slaughter of most of the invaders.
In spite of his notions as to piracy, John Plantain showed himself anhonester man than Matthews.
He proved to be no honester than his predecessors.
But you haue ere now bene acquainted / with patience perforce: and I hope the most desperate swasher of them will one day learne to shew himself honester or wiser.
I have not much to do at all on the farm but to poke about, and see that the men I have at work don't rob me by idling; and I must say I never saw honester work than what they leave after them.
I thought there was not an honester fellow in the world.
They make a causeway to their country by injury, as if it were nothonester to do nothing than to seek a way to do good by a mischief.
The latter hath no upbraiders, but was raised by them that sought to be defended from oppression: whose end is both easier and the honester to satisfy.
In your surprise at finding me an honester man than you expected, you have lost your curiosity about this Craigengelt, my good Master; and yet your name was brought in, in the course of that matter too.
I remember the celebrated case of Sir Coolie Condiddle of Condiddle, who was tried for theft under trust, of which all the world knew him guilty, and yet was not only acquitted, but lived to sit in judgment on honester folk.
She has been engaged in business a number of years, and has thriven much better than she probably would, had she been employed in an honester avocation.
She is not now extant as a witch, and it is not impossible that she is earning an honester living in other ways.
There isn't an honester man, or a man who understands a horse's paces better in all England," said Tifto.
Nor that thou seemst an honester man: for here We have no trading with such Tinsel-stuff; To be an excellent thief, is all we aim at.
I am sorry for that, because I am sure you could not find an honester lawyer to manage your affairs for you.
Can you look that man in the face,--that man who is at any rate so much honester than yourself?
Commines, an honester writer, though I fear, by the masters whom he pleased, not a much less servile courtier, says that the virtues of Louis XI.
Walpole, though formed in courts, fashioned in politics, and a haunter of high life to the last, now and then exhibits a feeling worthy of a manlier vocation, and an honester time.
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