 An ambassador is said to be a man of virtue sent abroad to tell lies for the advantage of his country ; a news-writer is a man without virtue, who writes lies at home for his own profit.  The Idler - Page 119by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Full view - About this book
 | Edward Law Hussey - 1894 - 92 pages
...me tua fervida terrent Dicta, ferox.— ' A news-writer,'— it was the opinion of Dr. Johnson, —' is a man without virtue, who writes lies at home for his own profit.' Cases of death from unnatural causes, and even from violence, known or suspected, are not always brought... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill, James Saumarez Mann - 1899 - 650 pages
...7,411,757, for a population estimated at about 6,200,000. The news-writer— 17841 [1742 Johnson's " man without virtue who writes lies at home for his own profit " — could control and guide public opinion, not only in London, but in every provincial town with... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - 1905 - 320 pages
...jocular definition, " An ambassador is said to be a man of virtue sent abroad to tell lies for the advantage of his country ; a newswriter is a man without...virtue, who writes lies at home for his own profit." To these compositions is required neither genius nor knowledge, neither industry nor sprightliness ; but... | |
 | 1916 - 884 pages
...the same time, the lexicographer, recalling the classic definition of an ambassador, pronounces that "a newswriter is a man without virtue, who writes lies at home for his own profit. To these compositions is required neither genius nor knowledge, neither industry nor sprightliness; but... | |
 | Carolyn Wells - 1923 - 804 pages
...Wotton's jocular definition, "An ambassador is said to be a man of virtue sent abroad to tell lies for the advantage of his country; a newswriter is a man without...virtue, who writes lies at home for his own profit." To these compositions is required neither genius nor knowledge, neither industry nor sprightliness; but... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...Wotton's jocular definition, an ambassador is said to be a man of virtue sent abroad to tell lies for the advantage of his country ; a news-writer is a man...virtue, who writes lies at home for his own profit. To these compositions is required neither genius nor knowledge, neither industry nor sprightliness ; but... | |
 | Willard Grosvenor Bleyer - 1927 - 504 pages
...Wotton's jocular definition, An A mbassador is said to be a man of virtue sent abroad to tell lies for the advantage of his country: a News-writer is a man without...virtue, who writes lies at home for his own profit. To these compositions is required neither genius nor knowledge, neither industry nor spriteliness, but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 pages
...ambassador" is said to be "a man of virtue sent abroad to tell lies for the advantage of his country";2 a news-writer is "a man without virtue, who writes lies at home for his own profit." To these compositions is required neither genius nor knowledge, neither industry nor sprightliness, but... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1850 - 1016 pages
...definition, he says : — 'An ambassador is said to be a man of virtue, sent abroad to tell lies for the advantage of his country ; a news-writer is a man...virtue, who writes lies at home for his own profit. To these compositions is required neither genius nor knowledge, neither industry nor sprightliness ; but... | |
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