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" which he would have been content should have been thus englished : An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country "
Dictionary of National Biography - Page 53
edited by - 1900
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...12764 Imust get out of these wet clothes and Into a dry Martini. WO(Yl'ON Sir Henry 1568-1639 12765 An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his countiy 12766 ‘The Character ofaHappyLife' Lord of hlnwelf though not of lands, And having nothing,...
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Early Modern Tales of Orient: A Critical Anthology

Kenneth Parker - British - 1999 - 304 pages
...is credited with providing the following definition of an ambassador (written in a friend's album): ‘An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country'. 51 Orhan Burian, ‘Interest of the English in Turkey as reflected in English literanore of the Renaissance',...
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Early Modern Tales of Orient: A Critical Anthology

Kenneth Parker - Business & Economics - 1999 - 308 pages
...is credited with providing the following definition of an ambassador (written in a friend's album): ‘An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country'. 51 Orhan Burian, ‘Interest of the English in Turkey as reflected in English literature of the Renaissance',...
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Being/s in Transit: Travelling, Migration, Dislocation

Liselotte Glage - Emigration and immigration in literature - 2000 - 244 pages
...telling observation by the diplomat Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639), who wrote in a friend's album that “An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.” About these tales of initial encounters, the first feature to observe is the contrast between their...
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Being/s in Transit: Travelling, Migration, Dislocation

Liselotte Glage - Emigration and immigration in literature - 2000 - 244 pages
...telling observation by the diplomat Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639), who wrote in a friend's album that "An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." About these tales of initial encounters, the first feature to observe is the contrast between their...
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Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England

Juliet Fleming - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 236 pages
...book to wall of a witticism ('Legatus est vir bonus peregrere missus ad mentiendum Reipublicaie causa' ['An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country']) that Henry Wootton wrote in a companion's common-place book: 'As it was, it slept quietly among other...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...(see ambhi) came ambage, ambiguous; embassy, ambassador. Sir Henry Wotton in 1604 neatly declared that "an ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." fumigate; fustigate; levigate; litigation. L ex-ags-men; examine, examination; exact. From driving...
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And I Quote, Revised Edition: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings ...

Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 552 pages
...—Robert Frost • I despise the pleasure of pleasing people whom I despise. —Mary Wortley Montagu • An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. —Henry Wotton • All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. —Chou En-lai • You cannot...
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Spartan Reflections

Paul Cartledge - History - 2003 - 300 pages
...of the Elizabethan grandee who in 1604 penned the immortally cynical definition of an ambassador as ‘an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country'), and Dorian Gray himself (was it, as Wilde later publicly denied, John Gray, the poet of decadence and...
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A Dictionary of the Bible: Volume III: (Part I: Kir -- Nympha)

James Hastings - Reference - 2004 - 596 pages
...is the hinge of Walton's witty translation of Sir Henry Wotton's definition of an ambassador—"an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." ' The following phrases should be noticed : 1. Lit along. See ALONG. 2. Lie on or Lie upon. This phrase...
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