...peregre missus ad mentiendum Reipublicœ 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 fur lie — being the hinge upon which the conceit was to lurn — was not so expressed in Latin, as...

...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 exprest in Latin, as would...

...his own Court. His conduct reminds us of Sir Henry Wotton's definition of an ambassador — that he is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. A pun upon the term lieger- Ambassador. Lord Chancellor and some others, that get money themselves,...

...words — in the album of Christopher Flecamore, by Sir Henry Wotton, when ambassador at Venice, that an ambassador is " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." Now, Sir Mawworm Mumble was a compound of these two characters. He would tell you a lie with the most...

...peregre missus ad mentiendum Reipublicte causd 10." 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...

...are to others, as to me ; 9 That is, reside here. So, in Sir Henry Wotton's equivocal definition : « An Ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." Affects, in the third line below, was sometimes used for affections. 10 Temptations. But I believe,...

...time chivalrous, loyal, and true. Though the author of the satirical definition of an ambassador, as " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country," his own course was the opposite of falsehood. Indeed, he laid down this as an infallible aphorism to...

...thosearts which caused a celebrated diplomatist in former days to define an ambassador as a person sent to lie abroad for the good of his country); but the penetration with 1858.] [March, which he had divined the plans of others: the secrecy with which he...

...thosearts which caused a celebrated diploniatistin former days to define an ambassador as a person sent to lie abroad for the good of his country); but the penetration with 1858.] 316 tMarcli, which he had divined the plans of others; the secrecy with which...

...those arts which caused a celebrated diplomatist in former days to define an ambassador as a person sent to lie abroad for the good of his country); but the penetration with which he had divined the plans of others: the secrecy with which he had formed and...