 | 1914 - 964 sayfa
...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... | |
 | 1845 - 564 sayfa
...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... | |
 | Sir Henry Wotton - 1845 - 236 sayfa
...grew facetious about his new dignity, and propounded his famous definition of an Amhassador, — " 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.... | |
 | Sir Henry Wotton - 1815 - 236 sayfa
...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.... | |
 | sir Henry Wotton - 1845 - 222 sayfa
...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.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 760 sayfa
...must LIE here" — ie Reside. We have the sense in Wotton'a punning definition of an ambassador — " ose my suit ? Quick. Troth, sir, all is in his hands above : b " Necessity will make us all forsworn" — " Biroti, amidst his extravagances, speaks with great justness... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1847 - 350 sayfa
...tender nature could only combine in fancy. He was author of the famous definition of an ambassador (" An honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country"), and of the no less true epitaph which he desired to be put on his tombstone, Hie jacet hujus sententice,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 726 sayfa
...must LIE here" — ie Reside. We have the sense in Wotton's punning definition of an ambassador — " ing, I thank you, sir." Give me those flowers there, Dorcas. " Necessity will make us all forsworn" — " Biron, amidst his extravagances, speaks with great justness... | |
 | 1919 - 424 sayfa
...ALFRED SE ACKERMANN. AMBASSADOR. — Was Dr. Samuel Johnson the first to define an ambassador as " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country " ? Mr. RB Marston, writing in The Daily Mail of June 24, 1916, said Izaak Walton was the author, but... | |
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An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. 
