 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Eton college - 1876 - 726 pages
...translation of an English pun. Walton says that Sir Henry " could have been content that his Latin could have been. thus Englished — " An Ambassador is an...abroad for the good of his country. " But the word lie (being the hinge upon which the conceit was to turn) was not so expressed in Latin as would admit... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...have given of it — " Legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ad mentiendum Reipublicse causa " — " arsh, he co Eight years afterwards this sentence was brought out of its friendly privacy by an Italian adversary... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1876 - 514 pages
...translation of an English pun. Walton says that Sir Henry "could have been content that his Latin could have been thus Englished : — " An ambassador is an honest man sent to LIB abroad for the good of his countrj.'1 But the word lie (being the hinge upon which the conceit... | |
 | James Keith (novelist.) - 1876 - 286 pages
...then, but — ' Amen,' was the only sound which came from this beggar on horseback. O CHAPTER XII. An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. SIR HENRY WATTON. THE Duke of Noland was dead. Long live the Duke! After leaving the... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Teaching - 1876 - 524 pages
...been content that his Latin could have been thus Englished : — " An Ambassador is ail honest man Mat to LIE abroad for the good of his country." But the word lie (being the hinge upon which the conceit was to turn) was not so expressed in Latin as would admit... | |
 | Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell Lyte - 1877 - 626 pages
...ad mentiendum Rcipublica causa." Walton would have us believe that the meaning intended was : — " An Ambassador is an honest man sent to lie' abroad for the good of his country," though it is obvious that there is no double-entendre in the Latin, or corresponding German. When a... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - Eastern question (Balkan) - 1877 - 354 pages
...character as Ambassador, he was to carry out the old definition of an Ambassador; he was to act as "an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." Our national crime then is that we have upheld the Turk for our own supposed interests. That is, for... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1883 - 862 pages
...in the album of his friend Flecamore, the punning and often quoted definition of an ambassador — an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. Certainly ambassadors had no good repute for veracity in those days, yet in all probability Wotton's... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - Quotations, English - 1878 - 360 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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An Ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. 
