 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 604 pages
...Longaville. • To lie — to reside. We have the sense in Wotton's punning definition of an ambassador — " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." • The folio reads break. 1 Suggestions — temptations. One who* the music of his own vain tongue... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 606 pages
...Longaville. b To lie — to reside. We have the sense in Wotton's punning definition of an ambassador — " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." • The folio reads break. ' Suggestions — temptations. One who» the music of his own vain tongue... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 690 pages
...Longaville. 1 To lie — to reside. We have the sense in Wotton's punning definition of an ambassador — " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." ' The folio reads break. 1 Say,Jestions — temptations. One who" the music of his own vain tongue... | |
 | Edward Herbert (1st baron.) - 1853 - 534 pages
...ambassador in these very words : " Legatus est vir bonus, peregre missus ad mentiendum Reipublicœ causa." Which Sir Henry Wotton could have been content should...abroad for the good of his country." But the word fur lie — being the hinge upon which the conceit was to lurn — was not so expressed in Latin, as... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1854 - 496 pages
...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 lieger- Ambassador. Lord Chancellor and some others, that get money themselves,... | |
 | Edward Bradley - 1856 - 152 pages
...words — in the album of Christopher Flecamore, by Sir Henry Wotton, when ambassador at Venice, that an ambassador is " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." Now, Sir Mawworm Mumble was a compound of these two characters. He would tell you a lie with the most... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 490 pages
...are to others, as to me ; 9 That is, reside here. So, in Sir Henry Wotton's equivocal definition : « An Ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." Affects, in the third line below, was sometimes used for affections. 10 Temptations. But I believe,... | |
 | American essays - 1868 - 796 pages
...time chivalrous, loyal, and true. Though the author of the satirical definition of an ambassador, as " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country," his own course was the opposite of falsehood. Indeed, he laid down this as an infallible aphorism to... | |
 | Ireland - 1858 - 770 pages
...those arts which caused a celebrated diplomatist in former days to define an ambassador as a person sent to lie abroad for the good of his country); but the penetration with which he had divined the plans of others: the secrecy with which he had formed and... | |
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An Ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. 
