...necessity. To lie, is to reside. Hence Sir Henry 'Wotton's punning definition of an ambassador — 'An honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.' To lie was, then, the term used for the residence of an ambassador. Wotton's definition might have...

...several embassies, but he lost that monarch's confidence by writing in a friend's album, as a definition, "An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country," which was quoted eight years after by an adversary of the king, as one of the principles on which he...

...wrote the best comment 011 this phrase in a passage in one of his letters, first quoted by Heed : " An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country" — a joke which has doubtless converted many a diplomatist to the faith of Dr. Johnson in the matter...

...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...

...Wootton availed himself of the double meaning of this expression, in his witty definition — '• k, hilt to point, heel to head; and then, to be stopped in, like a strong disti 17. Ajffitcti. Used here for affections, inclinations, propensities. 18. Suggestions. Temptations,...

...either. One of the most venerable of modern puns is Sir Henry Wotton's slur upon an ambassador as " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." So pleased with it was the good knight himself, as to try to give it European currency by translating...

...either. One of the most venerable of modern puns is Sir Henry Wotton's slur upon an ambassador as " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." So pleased with it was the good knight himself, as to try to give it European currency by translating...

...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, foyerAmbassador. so by my Lord Chancellor and some others, that get money themselves,...

...reside. Sir H. Wotton gives the following punning definition of the duties of an ambassador. — " An honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." LONG OP YOU. Act II., Sc. 1. " 'T is long of you that spur me with such questions." Through you —...

...Longaville. t> To Jit— to reside. We have the sense in Wotton's punning <it fruition of an ambassador — "an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." ' The folio reads brcitc. G 2 Stands in attainder of eternal shame : Suggestions* are to others, as...