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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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The Monthly repository (and review)., Volume 12

428 pages
...little and ruined man. Pleasant Sir Henry Wotton (himself an ambassador) denned an ambassador to be " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." Paley openly defends the "mental reservation" of the churchman, — of the subscriber to the thirty-nine...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ..., Volume 14

John Dryden - 1808 - 482 pages
...aera, where they may invent at pleasure, and not be easily contradicted. Neither Isaac Walton, " he could have been content should have been thus Englished...is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good uf his country : but the word mentiendum not admitting of a double meaning, like lie, (which ut that...
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Henry Wotton. Nicholas Ferrar. Bishop Hall. Henry Hammond. Bishop Sanderson ...

1810 - 618 pages
...an ambassador, in these very words : Legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ad mentiendum Reipubliae 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...
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The Youth's magazine, or Evangelical miscellany

1856 - 766 pages
...consenting to 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...
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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

1817 - 552 pages
...peregre missus ad 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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The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 32

Alexander Chalmers - 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...
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Calvinism and Arminianism compared in their principles and tendency: or The ...

James Nichols - 1824 - 554 pages
...ambassador, in these very words " Legatus est vir bonus peregre misstts ad mentiendum Tleipullicte causa.. " Which Sir Henry Wotton .could have been...an honest man^ sent to LIE ABROAD for the good of Jtis country. " But the word for LIE (being the hinge upon which the conceit was to turn), .was not...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 14

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1826 - 384 pages
...bonus peregre missus ad mentiendum Reipublicee causa," which Walton says Wotton would have interpreted, "An Ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." Book xii. V. 1. " As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed : so here th' arch-angel...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 14

1826 - 382 pages
...bonus peregre missus ad mentiendum Reipublicae causa," which Walton says Wotton would have interpreted, "An Ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." Book xii. V. 1. " As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed : so here th' arch-angel...
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Letters from an Absent Brother, Containing Some Account of a Tour Through ...

Daniel Wilson - 1827 - 464 pages
...more complete if the ambiguity of the English word, lie, could have been expressed in the Latin : " An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." — " Legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ad mentiendum republic* causa." The other is more grave,...
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