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" An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. "
The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Walton's Lives - Page 155
1832
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A Pack of Lies: Towards a Sociology of Lying

John Arundel Barnes - Family & Relationships - 1994 - 222 pages
...very realm of lies'. We should not forget Sir Henry Wotton's punning definition of an ambassador as 'an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country' (Smith 1907:49; Walton 1951:92- 93). In this respect the world of diplomacy is scarcely distinguishable...
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A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England

Steven Shapin - History - 1994 - 534 pages
...Prince, chs 15, 18-19, quoting 93; see also Whigham, Ambition and Privilege, 98-102. ambassador as "an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country."156 The poet Edmund Spenser said that the courtier "doth soonest rise that best can handle...
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Zwischen Autobiographie und Biographie: Jugend und Ausbildung des Fränkisch ...

Frank-Rutger Hausmann - 1576-1649 - 1995 - 254 pages
...Vindeliorum XVI. Augusti Mensis Anno Christiane MD CIIII". Wotton wollte dies wie folgt übersetzt wissen: „An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country". Schoppe nutzt dies - er scheint während eines seiner häufigen Aufenthalte in Augsburg oder gar durch...
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Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society

Cork Historical and Archaeological Society - Cork (Ireland : County) - 1916 - 248 pages
...in an album and conveyed by some busybodies to the Court in London. "An Ambassador," wrote Wotton, "is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." The saying did more honour to his veracity than to his diplomacy, with the result that when he was...
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Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership

Garry Wills - History - 2013 - 340 pages
...government that sends him out, he exemplifies Sir Henry Wotton's famous definition of an ambassador as "an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country."1 His messages home are confidential; his communications abroad are duplicitous. If, on the...
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The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Italies of British Travellers : an Annotated ...

Manfred Pfister - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 578 pages
...at Venice and served on various other diplomatic missions from 1604 to 1624. His famous definition, "An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country", characterizes his political activities in Venice and Italy which aimed at encouraging Venetian independence...
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Europe: A History

Norman Davies - History - 1996 - 1428 pages
...to be familiar with codes, ciphers, and invisible ink. 'An ambassador', quipped Sir Henry Wootton, 'is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.' None the less, the growth of permanent diplomacy marked an important stage in the formation of a community...
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Travel and Drama in Shakespeare's Time

Jean-Pierre Maquerlot, Michèle Willems - Drama - 1996 - 292 pages
...post, he had inscribed a witty text in a visitors' book in Germany to the effect that 'An Embassadour is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his Country.' This is a good pun, with the virtue that the text remains open to an innocent construction. Unfortunately,...
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Reason in Action: Essays in the Philosophy of Social Science

Martin Hollis - Philosophy - 1996 - 300 pages
...written to his superiors on the MacDonalds' behalf. A diplomat has been defined, with nice ambiguity, as an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country; and I daresay that a little lying abroad was morally tolerable in a civilian governor. But it would...
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Book of Humorous Quotations

Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...calm. 4592 I must get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini. WOOTON Sir Henry 1568-1639 4593 An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. 4594 Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes. 4595 'Upon the Death ofSirAlbertus Moreton's...
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