...pleasure, and not be easily contradicted. Neither Isaac Walton, " he could have been content should have been thus Englished : An ambassador 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...

...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 the hinge upoa which the conceit was to turn) was not so exprest in Latin, as would...

...which he intended should have been thus rendered into English : " An ambassador is an hoWOT " nest man, sent to lie * abroad ." for the good of his country ;" but U;e word lie, upon which the ponceit turned, was not so expressed in Latin as to admit of a double...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...pleasure, and not be easily contradicted. Neither Isaac Walton, " he could have been content should have been thus Englished : An ambassador is an honest...abroad for the good of his country ; but the word mentiendum not admitting of a double meaning, !ike lie, (which at that time signified to sojourn, as...

...peregre missus ad mentiendum Reipubliea caus&. " Which Sir Henry Wotton n.mid have been content should have been thus Englished : " An Ambassador is an honest...ABROAD for the good of his country. " But the word for LIE (being the hinge upon which the conceit was to turn), was not so exprest in Latin, as would...

...peregre missus ad mentiendum rei" publics causa." Which sir Henry Wotton could have been content should have been thus Englished : " An ambassador is an honest...abroad for the " good of his country." But the word for lie (being the hinge upon which the conceit was to turn) was not so expressed in Latin, as would...

...misstts ad mentiendum Tleipullicte causa.. " Which Sir Henry Wotton .could have been content should have been thus Englished : " An Ambassador is 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...