...; 16 To lie is, in the ambassadorial sense, to reside. So in Sir Henry Wotton's punning definition: "An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." 10 A/ects for a/ectlons or passions. A frequent usage. 17 Temptations; the more common meaning of suggestion...

...than Overbury, King James's favourite diplomatist, and author of the definition of an ambassador as " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country " — we find a weighty balance of sentence almost as finished as Johnson's. The following is a sample...

...146. Lie. Lodge, reside. See 2 Hen. IV. p. 185, or Oth. p. 193. Reed quotes Wotton's definition : " An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." Mere. Absolute. See Temp. p. 111, note on We are merely cheated, etc. Cf. i. 2. 33 below. 149. Affects....

...minister. In the days of Elizabeth, Sir H. Wotton, himself an envoy, punningly described an ambassador as an honest man sent to "lie" abroad for the good of his country. Napoleon said of Metternich that " he approaches to being a statesman—he lies very well;" and Sir...

...the best policy." But he who acts on that principle is not an honest man. ». AitcHBisHOP WHATKLY. " G commonwealth. D. WOTTON — .4 Panegyric to King Charles. HONOR. Better to die ten thousand deaths,...

...James I., who sent him as ambassador to Venice, and other powers; provost of Eton, 161S; died 1039.] An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. ett vir bonus peregre missus ad mentiendum rei publicce eausd). Wottou's biographer thinks...

...Tusser Where to elect there is but one, 'Tis Hobson's choice — take that or none. — Thomas Ward An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. — Sir Henry Wotton Everyone as he likes, as the goodman said when he kissed his cow.—...

...truthful. "An ambassador," punned the seventeenth-century English poet and diplomat Sir Henry Wotton, "is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." A little deceit is not such a dangerous thing as long as it is bounded by convention. But when a country...

...Christopher Herold I despise the pleasure of pleasing people whom I despise. — Lady Mary Wortley Montagu An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. — Henry Wotton Living next to you [the United States] is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant....

...act 1 . The part of the Genera! was played by Ustinov himself in the first production of the play. 13 our life oí" his country. SIR HENRY WOTTON (1 568-1 639), English diploma!, poet. Written in the album of Christopher...