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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—V

Victor Emmanuel of Italy

called King Honest-Man, for his honest concessions to the people of constitutional freedom promised by his father and by himself in less prosperous circumstances.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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