 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...embassies, but he lost that monarch's conf1dence 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... | |
 | Christian life - 1870 - 858 pages
...is due as much in one respect as the other. He it was who gave the definition of an ambassador as " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." And when his advice was onco asked in a matter of diplomatic tactics, he said, " Ever speak the truth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1908 - 668 pages
...many examples. — [There is here doubtless a play upon the word, as in Sir Henry Wotton's definition: 'An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.' — ED.] 126. I must] STEEVENS: Alluding to the proverb: 'Patience perforce is medicine... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...Architecture. Hanging was the worst use man could be put t0. The Disparity between Buchingham ancl Essex. An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.2 1 "sun" in Reliquia Wottoniana, Eds. 165I, 1672, 1685. 2 In a letter to Velserus, 1612,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...many MSS. — Hannah, The Courtly Poets. Harrington. — Daniel. — Dray ton. 1 49 Wotton continued-] An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.1 The itch of disputing will prove the scab of churches.3 A Panegyric to King Charles.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. 
