 | 1762 - 560 trang
...would have interpreted thus, " An " ambaflador is an honeft man fent to lie abroad for the sood O " of his country." The word lie was the hinge, on which this conceit.turned ; yet was not fo exprefied in Latin, as to bear the conftruction, Sir Henry meant to... | |
 | 1784 - 778 trang
...interpreted thus, " An ambaflador is an •' honeft man feat to lie abroad for the good of his coun" try." The word lie was the hinge, on which this conceit turned; yet was not fo expreifed in Latin, as to bear the conilruftion Sir Henry meant to have put upon it: fo... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 trang
...words, says his biographer, Isaac Walton, " he could have been content should have been thus Englished : An Ambassador is an honest man, sent to 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... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 670 trang
...words, says his biographer, Isaac Walton, " he could have been content should have been thus Englished : An Ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country: but the word mentiendum not admitting of a double meaning, like tie, (which at that time signified... | |
 | Nathaniel Wanley - 1806 - 552 trang
...metitlcmlu'm rdpubRct causa : which Sir Henry would have been ronte,nted should have been thus englished, " An ambassador is an honest man, 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Wanley - 1806 - 590 trang
...mtntiendum reipabltca causa : which Sir Henry would have been contented should Irive been thus englished, " An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie 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... | |
 | 428 trang
...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 trang
...contradicted. Neither Isaac Walton, " he could have been content should have been thus Englished : An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country : but the word mentiendvm not admitting of a double meaning, like lie, (which at that time signified... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 504 trang
...contradicted. Neither Isaac Walton, " he could have been content should have been thus Englished : An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country : but the word mentiendnm not admitting of a double meaning, like lie, (which at that time signified... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 482 trang
...contradicted. Neither Isaac Walton, " he could have been content should have been thus Englished : An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good uf his country : but the word mentiendum not admitting of a double meaning, like lie, (which ut that... | |
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An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. 
