 | Robert Shiells, Theophilus Cibber - 1753 - 366 ページ
...;'' 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... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Thomas Zouch - 1796 - 640 ページ
...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...hinge upon which the conceit was to turn, was not fo exprefled in Latin, as would admit (in the hands of an enemy efpecially) fo fair a conftrudtion... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 670 ページ
...Germany, when he went as Ambassador to Venice. These words, says his biographer, Isaac Walton, " he could have been content should have been thus Englished...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 to sojourn, as... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 ページ
...Germany, when he went as Ambassador to Venice. These words, says his biographer, Isaac Walton, " he could have been content should have been thus Englished...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 ページ
...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...hinge upon which the conceit was to turn) was not fo expreffed in Latin, as would admit (in the hands of an enemy efpecially) fo fair a conftruction... | |
 | Nathaniel Wanley - 1806 - 590 ページ
...feregre minus ad mtntiendum reipabltca causa : which Sir Henry would have been contented should Irive been thus englished, " An ambassador is an honest...word for lie (being the hinge upon which the conceit should turn) \\as not so expressed in Latin, as would admit of so fair a construction as . Sir Henry... | |
 | Nathaniel Wanley - 1806 - 552 ページ
...wr bonus, pcregre missus ad metitlcmlu'm rdpubRct causa : which Sir Henry would have been ronte,nted should have been thus englished, " An ambassador is...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...where they may invent at pleasure, and not be easily contradicted. Neither Isaac Walton, " he could have been content should have been thus Englished...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 ページ
...where they may invent at pleasure, and not be easily contradicted. Neither Isaac Walton, " he could have been content should have been thus Englished...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. 
