 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...biographer, Isaac Walton, " he could have been content should have been thus Englished : An Ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country: but the word mentiendum not admitting of a double meaning, like lie, (which at that time signified... | |
 | John Dryden - English prose literature - 1800 - 712 pages
...biographer, Isaac Walton, " he could have been content should have been thus Englished : An Ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country: but the word mentiendum not admitting of a double meaning, like He, (which at that time signified to... | |
 | Nathaniel Wanley - Characters and characteristics - 1806 - 590 pages
...causa : which Sir Henry would have been contented should Irive been thus englished, " An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country :" but the word for lie (being the hinge upon which the conceit should turn) \\as not so expressed... | |
 | Nathaniel Wanley - Characters and characteristics - 1806 - 552 pages
...causa : which Sir Henry would have been ronte,nted should have been thus englished, " An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country:" but that word for lie (being the hinge ujon which the conceit should turnj was not so expressed in... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 504 pages
...Neither Isaac Walton, " he could have been content should have been thus Englished : An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country : but the word mentiendnm not admitting of a double meaning, like lie, (which at that time signified... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 484 pages
...Neither Isaac Walton, " he could have been content should have been thus Englished : An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country : but the word mentiendvm not admitting of a double meaning, like lie, (which at that time signified... | |
 | Christian biography - 1810 - 618 pages
...causa. Which sir Henry Wotton could have been content should have been thus Englished : An embassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. But the word for lie (being the hinge upoa which the conceit was to turn) was not so exprest in Latin,... | |
 | 1856 - 766 pages
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Biography - 1817 - 552 pages
...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... | |
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An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. 
