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" An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. "
Dedication of Examen poeticum. Discourse concerning the original and ... - Página 299
por John Dryden - 1900
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now ..., Volumen3

John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 670 páginas
...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...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now ..., Volumen3

John Dryden - 1800 - 674 páginas
...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...
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The Wonders of the Little World; Or, A General History of Man ..., Volumen1

Nathaniel Wanley - 1806 - 552 páginas
...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...
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The Wonders of the Little World: Or, A General History of Man ..., Volumen2

Nathaniel Wanley - 1806 - 590 páginas
...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...
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The Monthly repository (and review)., Volumen12

428 páginas
...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...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 484 páginas
...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...
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The Works of John Dryden Now First Collected ...

John Dryden - 1808 - 504 páginas
...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...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ..., Volumen14

John Dryden - 1808 - 482 páginas
...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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Henry Wotton. Nicholas Ferrar. Bishop Hall. Henry Hammond. Bishop Sanderson ...

1810 - 618 páginas
...causa. Which sir Henry Wotton could have been content should have been thus Englished : An embassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. But the word for lie (being the hinge upoa which the conceit was to turn) was not so exprest in Latin,...
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The Youth's magazine, or Evangelical miscellany

1856 - 766 páginas
...consenting to the motion, he took occasion to write a pleasant definition of an Ambassador : — " An Ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." This apophthegm, against which little exception can be taken on the score of truth, slept quietly in...
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