 | Warren Hastings - Impeachments - 1859 - 818 pages
...master, King James the First, by writing in an album, in Italy, this sentiment,— " An amhassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." — See Wordsworth's " Ecclesiastieal Biograpby,'' ed. 1853, voL ir., p. 90. is FEB.^78s. the faculties... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Thomas Zouch - Biography - 1860 - 408 pages
...Ambassador in these very words : " Legatus est vir bonus, peregre missus ad mentiendum Reipublicte causa." Which Sir Henry Wotton could have been content...man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." Henry thought in English. Yet as it was, it slept quietly among other sentences in this Albo, almost... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1860 - 370 pages
...as being a language common to all that erudite company, but the definition was, in English, this — "An Ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." This sentence was imparted, eight years afterwards, to one of King James's literary opponents, a jealous... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1861 - 406 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - 1863 - 486 pages
...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... | |
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Chronology, Historical - 1862 - 880 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1864 - 752 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1864 - 656 pages
...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... | |
 | The North American Review.VOL.XCVIII - 1864 - 654 pages
...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... | |
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An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. 
