 An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.  Poems - Pagina xivdoor Sir Henry Wotton - 1815 - 136 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 712 pagina’s
...biographer, Isaac Walton, " he could have been content should have been thus Englished : An Ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country: but the word mentiendum not admitting of a double meaning, like He, (which at that time signified to... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pagina’s
...biographer, Isaac Walton, " he could have been content should have been thus Englished : An Ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country: but the word mentiendum not admitting of a double meaning, like lie, (which at that time signified... | |
 | Nathaniel Wanley - 1806 - 590 pagina’s
...causa : which Sir Henry would have been contented should Irive been thus englished, " An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country :" but the word for lie (being the hinge upon which the conceit should turn) \\as not so expressed... | |
 | 428 pagina’s
...little and ruined man. Pleasant Sir Henry Wotton (himself an ambassador) denned an ambassador to be " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." Paley openly defends the "mental reservation" of the churchman, — of the subscriber to the thirty-nine... | |
 | Nathaniel Wanley - 1806 - 552 pagina’s
...causa : which Sir Henry would have been ronte,nted should have been thus englished, " An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country:" but that word for lie (being the hinge ujon which the conceit should turnj was not so expressed in... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 484 pagina’s
...Neither Isaac Walton, " he could have been content should have been thus Englished : An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country : but the word mentiendvm not admitting of a double meaning, like lie, (which at that time signified... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 504 pagina’s
...Neither Isaac Walton, " he could have been content should have been thus Englished : An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country : but the word mentiendnm not admitting of a double meaning, like lie, (which at that time signified... | |
 | 1810 - 618 pagina’s
...causa. Which sir Henry Wotton could have been content should have been thus Englished : An embassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. But the word for lie (being the hinge upoa which the conceit was to turn) was not so exprest in Latin,... | |
 | 1856 - 766 pagina’s
...the motion, he took occasion to write a pleasant definition of an Ambassador : — " An Ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." This apophthegm, against which little exception can be taken on the score of truth, slept quietly in... | |
 | 1817 - 552 pagina’s
...nieinieiidum Reipublicae causa:" which Walton says be would have interpreted thus: "An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." The word lie was the hinge on which this conceit turned, yet it was no conceit at all in Latin, and therefore... | |
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