 | 1845 - 564 pagina’s
...Education ; Poems, printed in the Reliquiae Wottonias ; Two Apologies relating to his Album Aphorism : An Ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. Some of his religions poems are exquisitely beautiful ; that written On a Bed of Sickness, has never... | |
 | sir Henry Wotton - 1845 - 222 pagina’s
...grew facetious about his new dignity, and propounded his famous definition of an Ambassador, — " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his Country." The pun might pass in English; for " to lie" was the term then used for the residence of an Amhassador.... | |
 | Sir Henry Wotton - 1815 - 236 pagina’s
...grew facetious about his new dignity, and propounded his famous definition of an Ambassador, — " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his Country." The pun might pass in English; for " to lie" was the term then used for the residence of an Ambassador.... | |
 | Sir Henry Wotton - 1845 - 236 pagina’s
...grew facetious about his new dignity, and propounded his famous definition of an Amhassador, — " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his Country." The pun might pass in English; for " to lie" was the term then used for the residence of an Ambassador.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1847 - 350 pagina’s
...tender nature could only combine in fancy. He was author of the famous definition of an ambassador (" An honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country"), and of the no less true epitaph which he desired to be put on his tombstone, Hie jacet hujus sententice,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 726 pagina’s
...must LIE here" — ie Reside. We have the sense in Wotton's punning definition of an ambassador — " ing, I thank you, sir." Give me those flowers there, Dorcas. " Necessity will make us all forsworn" — " Biron, amidst his extravagances, speaks with great justness... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 760 pagina’s
...must LIE here" — ie Reside. We have the sense in Wotton'a punning definition of an ambassador — " ose my suit ? Quick. Troth, sir, all is in his hands above : b " Necessity will make us all forsworn" — " Biroti, amidst his extravagances, speaks with great justness... | |
 | 1907 - 684 pagina’s
...Legatus est vir 1юпия peregri- missus ad mentiendum reipublicte causa.' "Which Sir Henry Wotton could have been content should have been thus Englished : "'An ambassador is an honest man, gent to lie abroad for the good of his country.' " But the word for lie, being the hinge upon which... | |
 | 1866 - 674 pagina’s
...vir bonus peregrè missus ad mentienduni reipublicœ causa" — which, says Walton, he — " could have been content should have been thus Englished : ' An Ambassador is an honest mun, seat to lie abroad for the ^ood of his country.' But the word for UK (briiu; the hin^e upon which... | |
 | 1919 - 424 pagina’s
...ALFRED SE ACKERMANN. AMBASSADOR. — Was Dr. Samuel Johnson the first to define an ambassador as " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country " ? Mr. RB Marston, writing in The Daily Mail of June 24, 1916, said Izaak Walton was the author, but... | |
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An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. 
