...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...

...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...

...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,...

...favour of falsehood, and by the malicious wit otf ; Scioppius was perverted to the harsher sense : ' An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.' Besides it is an argument of a cowardly poor spirit, and though it may chance to serve a present turn,...

...peregre missus ad mentiendum reipublicas 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...

...peregre missus ad mentiendum reipublicae 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...

...peregre missus ad mentiendum reipublicae causa." Which Sir Henry Wotton could have been content should have been thus Englished : " An ambassador is an honest man, sent to tie. abroad for the good of his country." But the word for lie being the hinge upon which the conceit...

...peregrti missus ad mentiendum reipublicee causa.' " Which Sir Henry Wotton could have been content should have been thus Englished : " ' An ambassador is an...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...

...more complete if the ambiguity of the Engish 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 rnentiendnm republics; causi," The other is more grave,...

...ambassador in these terms, Legatus est vir bonus, peregre missus ad mentiendtim Reipublica causa, ie An Ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his Country. And whatever reasons can be offered in vindication of Ambassadors for lying abroad may with equal justice...