...bonus peregre missus ad mentiendum reipublicae causa." Which Sir Henry Wotton could have been content should have been thus Englished : " An ambassador...sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." But the word for lie being the hinge upon which the conceit was to turn, was not so expressed in Latin,...

...bonus peregre missus ad mentiendum reipublicas causa." Which Sir Henry Wotton could have been content should have been thus Englished : " An ambassador...sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." But the word for lie being the hinge upon which the conceit was to turn, was not so expressed in Latin,...

...bonus peregre missus ad mentiendum reipublicae causa." Which Sir Henry Wotton could have been content should have been thus Englished : " An ambassador is an honest man, sent to tie. abroad for the good of his country." But the word for lie being the hinge upon which the conceit...

...peregrti missus ad mentiendum reipublicee causa.' " Which Sir Henry Wotton could have been content should have been thus Englished : " ' An ambassador...to lie abroad for the good of his country.' " But the word for lie being the hinge upon which the conceit was to turn, was not so expressed in Latin,...

...gentry usually carry about them." — Sir Henry wrote in Latin a pleasant definition of an ambassador. " An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." The sentence slept quietly in the albo for cight years; but at length a Roman adversary of King James...

...more complete if the ambiguity of the Engish word, lie, could have been expressed in the Latin : " An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." — " Legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ad rnentiendnm republics; causi," The other is more grave,...

...ambassador in these terms, Legatus est vir bonus, peregre missus ad mentiendtim Reipublica causa, ie An Ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his Country. And whatever reasons can be offered in vindication of Ambassadors for lying abroad may with equal justice...

...facetious sentence of innocent meaning, that was capable to be interpreted in favour of falsehood—" An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." Besides, it is an argument of a cowardly poor spirit, and though it may chance to serve a present turn,...

...bonus peregre missus ad mentiendum reipubKcae causa.' Which Sir Henry Wotton could have been content should have been thus Englished : — ' An ambassador...sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.' But the word for lie (being the hinge upon which the conceit was to turn) was not so expressed in Latin...

...peregre missus ad mentiendum ret• publicae causa.' Which Sir Henry Wotton conld have been content should have been thus Englished :—' An ambassador...sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.' But the word for lie (being the hinge upon which the conceit was to turn) was not so expressed in Latin...