 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 pagina’s
...half the reasons why we smile and sigh. KBBLE, Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity. Ambassador. — An AMBASSADOR is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. — Sir H. WOTTON. , — AMBITION hath one heel nail'd in hell, Though she stretch her... | |
 | 1883 - 684 pagina’s
...TRUTH. THE worthy Sir Henry Wotton incurred the displeasure of King James by saying on one occasion — ';An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." It certainly is an argument of a cowardly, poor spirit, and though it may chance to serve a present... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1879 - 648 pagina’s
...his own Court. His conduct reminds us of Sir Henry Wotton's definition of an ambassador — that he is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. A pun upon the term liegerAmbassador. P. 379, 1. 19. " Philaster; or, Love lies a bleeding," a tragedy,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson - 1880 - 570 pagina’s
...; 16 To lie is, in the ambassadorial sense, to reside. So in Sir Henry Wotton's punning definition: "An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." 10 A/ects for a/ectlons or passions. A frequent usage. 17 Temptations; the more common meaning of suggestion... | |
 | William Minto - 1881 - 596 pagina’s
...than Overbury, King James's favourite diplomatist, and author of the definition of an ambassador as " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country " — we find a weighty balance of sentence almost as finished as Johnson's. The following is a sample... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 190 pagina’s
...146. Lie. Lodge, reside. See 2 Hen. IV. p. 185, or Oth. p. 193. Reed quotes Wotton's definition : " An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." Mere. Absolute. See Temp. p. 111, note on We are merely cheated, etc. Cf. i. 2. 33 below. 149. Affects.... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 pagina’s
...Tusser Where to elect there is but one, 'Tis Hobson's choice — take that or none. — Thomas Ward An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. — Sir Henry Wotton Everyone as he likes, as the goodman said when he kissed his cow.—... | |
 | John Bowyer Bell, Barton Whaley - 1991 - 382 pagina’s
...truthful. "An ambassador," punned the seventeenth-century English poet and diplomat Sir Henry Wotton, "is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." A little deceit is not such a dangerous thing as long as it is bounded by convention. But when a country... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 552 pagina’s
...Christopher Herold I despise the pleasure of pleasing people whom I despise. — Lady Mary Wortley Montagu An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. — Henry Wotton Living next to you [the United States] is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant.... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pagina’s
...act 1 . The part of the Genera! was played by Ustinov himself in the first production of the play. 13 our life oí" his country. SIR HENRY WOTTON (1 568-1 639), English diploma!, poet. Written in the album of Christopher... | |
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An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. 
