 | William Shakespeare - 1908 - 668 דפים
...many examples. — [There is here doubtless a play upon the word, as in Sir Henry Wotton's definition: 'An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.' — ED.] 126. I must] STEEVENS: Alluding to the proverb: 'Patience perforce is medicine... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 דפים
...Architecture. Hanging was the worst use man could be put t0. The Disparity between Buchingham ancl Essex. An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.2 1 "sun" in Reliquia Wottoniana, Eds. 165I, 1672, 1685. 2 In a letter to Velserus, 1612,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 דפים
...many MSS. — Hannah, The Courtly Poets. Harrington. — Daniel. — Dray ton. 1 49 Wotton continued-] An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.1 The itch of disputing will prove the scab of churches.3 A Panegyric to King Charles.... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1876 - 726 דפים
...translation of an English pun. Walton says that Sir Henry " could have been content that his Latin could have been. thus Englished — " An Ambassador is an...sent to LIE abroad for the good of his country. " But the word lie (being the hinge upon which the conceit was to turn) was not so expressed in Latin as... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 דפים
...have given of it — " Legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ad mentiendum Reipublicse causa " — " arsh, he co Eight years afterwards this sentence was brought out of its friendly privacy by an Italian adversary... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 514 דפים
...translation of an English pun. Walton says that Sir Henry "could have been content that his Latin could have been thus Englished : — " An ambassador is an honest man sent to LIB abroad for the good of his countrj.'1 But the word lie (being the hinge upon which the conceit... | |
 | James Keith (novelist.) - 1876 - 286 דפים
...then, but — ' Amen,' was the only sound which came from this beggar on horseback. O CHAPTER XII. An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. SIR HENRY WATTON. THE Duke of Noland was dead. Long live the Duke! After leaving the... | |
 | Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell Lyte - 1877 - 626 דפים
...ad mentiendum Rcipublica causa." Walton would have us believe that the meaning intended was : — " An Ambassador is an honest man sent to lie' abroad for the good of his country," though it is obvious that there is no double-entendre in the Latin, or corresponding German. When a... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - 1877 - 354 דפים
...character as Ambassador, he was to carry out the old definition of an Ambassador; he was to act as "an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." Our national crime then is that we have upheld the Turk for our own supposed interests. That is, for... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1883 - 862 דפים
...in the album of his friend Flecamore, the punning and often quoted definition of an ambassador — an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. Certainly ambassadors had no good repute for veracity in those days, yet in all probability Wotton's... | |
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An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. 
