...gentry usually carry about them." — Sir Henry wrote in Latin a pleasant definition of an ambassador. " An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." The sentence slept quietly in the albo for cight years; but at length a Roman adversary of King James...

...facetious sentence of innocent meaning, that was capable to be interpreted in favour of falsehood—" 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 reipubKcae causa.' Which Sir Henry Wotton could have been content should have been thus Englished : — ' An ambassador is...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...

...missus ad mentiendum ret• publicae causa.' Which Sir Henry Wotton conld 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...

...missus ad mentiendum reipublicae causa ;" which Walton tells us he would have been content should be Englished " An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country ¡" though unfortunately " the vvord for lie," he says, " being the hinge upon which the conceit was...

...Henry Wotton's punning definition of an ambassador, made when he himself was an ambassador : — ' An honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country ;' and there is some difference in such matters between the suggestio falsi and the stippressio veri...

...Lord Lyons presents not the smallest resemblance. His worst enemy could not have declared tliat he was "an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." It Is only the "honesty" In this witty definition which bears any relation to the character of Lord...

...Education ; Poems, printed in the Reliquiae Wottonias ; Two Apologies relating to his Album Aphorism : An Ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. Some of his religions poems are exquisitely beautiful ; that written On a Bed of Sickness, has never...

...grew facetious about his new dignity, and propounded his famous definition of an Ambassador, — " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his Country." The pun might pass in English; for " to lie" was the term then used for the residence of an Ambassador....

...grew facetious about his new dignity, and propounded his famous definition of an Ambassador, — " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his Country." The pun might pass in English; for " to lie" was the term then used for the residence of an Amhassador....