| 1856 - 766 pages
...consenting to 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... | |
| Biography - 1817 - 552 pages
...peregre missus ad 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... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 556 pages
...ineiniendum Ileipublicae causa:" which Walton says he would have interpreted thus. " An amhassador 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... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 502 pages
...aera, where they may invent at pleasure, and not be easily contradicted. Neither Isaac Walton, " he could have been content should have been thus Englished...abroad for the good of his country ; but the word mentiendum not admitting of a double meaning, !ike lie, (which at that time signified to sojourn, as... | |
| James Nichols - 1824 - 554 pages
...ambassador, in these very words " Legatus est vir bonus peregre misstts ad mentiendum Tleipullicte causa.. " Which Sir Henry Wotton .could have been content should...an honest man^ sent to LIE ABROAD for the good of Jtis country. " But the word for LIE (being the hinge upon which the conceit was to turn), .was not... | |
| Books - 1826 - 382 pages
...bonus peregre missus ad mentiendum Reipublicae causa," which Walton says Wotton would have interpreted, "An Ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." Book xii. V. 1. " As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed : so here th' arch-angel... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1826 - 384 pages
...bonus peregre missus ad mentiendum Reipublicee causa," which Walton says Wotton would have interpreted, "An Ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." Book xii. V. 1. " As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed : so here th' arch-angel... | |
| Daniel Wilson - 1827 - 464 pages
...more complete if the ambiguity of the English word, lie, could have been expressed in the Latin : " An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." — " Legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ad mentiendum republic* causa." The other is more grave,... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1828 - 550 pages
...favour of falsehood, and by the malicious wit otf ; Scioppius was perverted to the harsher sense : ' An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.' Besides it is an argument of a cowardly poor spirit, and though it may chance to serve a present turn,... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1832 - 348 pages
...ambassador, in these very words: " Legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ad mentiendum reipublicae causa." Which Sir Henry Wotton could have been content should...Englished : " An ambassador is an honest man, sent to tie. abroad for the good of his country." But the word for lie being the hinge upon which the conceit... | |
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