[lit-ideas] Re: "Honesty Is The Best Policy"
- From: Harold Hungerford <hh@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:36:09 -0700
Looks like a tie. Europae Speculum was also published in 1605. I have=20
no idea why the OED gives the date of the quotation as 1599, but the=20
editors/readers were probably working from a 1632 reprint. There is a=20
recent biography which can be read by anybody who so chooses. Here's a=20=
few facts, if there is such a thing as a fact:
Sandys, Sir Edwin, 1561=961629, English statesman, leading promoter of=20=
the colony in Virginia; son of Archbishop Edwin Sandys. He studied law=20=
and was first returned to Parliament in 1586. His Europae Speculum=20
(1605), published after an extended tour abroad beginning in 1593,=20
revealed a remarkably tolerant attitude toward Roman Catholics for an=20
Englishman of that period. Sandys was knighted (1603), reentered=20
Parliament (1604), and became a leading figure in the parliamentary=20
opposition to King James I. He was a member of several chartered=20
companies, including the London Company, of which he became treasurer=20
in 1619. As leader of the liberal faction within the company, Sandys=20
was responsible for many of the progressive features that characterized=20=
the last years of the company's control over Virginia, including the=20
introduction of representative government in the first house of=20
burgesses (1619). The king prevented his reelection as treasurer in=20
1620, but despite opposition from this and other formidable quarters he=20=
continued to wield great influence until the king annulled the=20
company's charter in 1624. (=46rom the Columbia electronic =
encyclopedia.)
Harold Hungerford
On Oct 14, 2004, at 1:10 AM, Robert Paul wrote:
I wrote:
But iff 'Sandy' uttered or
printed the expression in 1599, he's ahead of Cervantes and wins the=20
best policy
prize: Volume I of DQ was published in 1605.
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Philosophers and logicians will see the force of this.
Robert Paul
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