 | Robert Shiells, Theophilus Cibber - 1753 - 366 sayfa
...;'' which he chofe fhould have been thus rendered into Englifh : An Ambaflador is an honeft Man, fent to lie abroad for the good of his Country ; but the word lie, upon which the conceit turned, was not fo exprefled in Latin, as to admit a double meaning, or fo fa'ra... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Thomas Zouch - 1796 - 640 sayfa
...Wotton could have been content fhould have been thus Engliftied : " An ambafiador is an honeft man, fent to lie abroad for the good of his country." But the word for lie, being the hinge upon which the conceit was to turn, was not fo exprefled in Latin, as would... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 sayfa
...Ambassador to Venice. These words, says his biographer, Isaac Walton, " he could have been content should have been thus Englished : An Ambassador is an honest...lie abroad for the good of his country: but the word mentiendum not admitting of a double meaning, like lie, (which at that time signified to sojourn, as... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 sayfa
...Ambassador to Venice. These words, says his biographer, Isaac Walton, " he could have been content should have been thus Englished : An Ambassador is an honest...lie abroad for the good of his country: but the word mentiendum not admitting of a double meaning, like lie, (which at that time signified to sojourn, as... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1805 - 438 sayfa
...Wotton could have been content fhould have been thus Englifhed : " An ambaflkdor is an honeft man, fent to lie abroad " for the good of his country." But the word for lie (being the hinge upon which the conceit was to turn) was not fo expreffed in Latin, as would... | |
 | Nathaniel Wanley - 1806 - 590 sayfa
...feregre minus ad mtntiendum reipabltca causa : which Sir Henry would have been contented should Irive 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 should turn) \\as not so expressed in Latin, as would... | |
 | Nathaniel Wanley - 1806 - 552 sayfa
...bonus, pcregre missus ad metitlcmlu'm rdpubRct causa : which Sir Henry would have been ronte,nted should have been thus englished, " An ambassador is an honest...sent to lie abroad for the good of his country:" but that word for lie (being the hinge ujon which the conceit should turnj was not so expressed in Latin,... | |
 | 428 sayfa
...little and ruined man. Pleasant Sir Henry Wotton (himself an ambassador) denned an ambassador to be " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." Paley openly defends the "mental reservation" of the churchman, — of the subscriber to the thirty-nine... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 484 sayfa
...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 mentiendvm not admitting of a double meaning, like lie, (which at that time signified to tojourn, as... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 504 sayfa
...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 mentiendnm not admitting of a double meaning, like lie, (which at that time signified te sojourn, as... | |
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An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. 
