. The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems . Subje<5ts of fome Commonwealths, naythe Magistrates themfelves, in whofe Hands the Go-vernment is, think whether it were poihble for anyTyrant to enilave them more than thole very Peribns £18) It a trepMi, libertas corrumpebatur. Tac. 1. Ann. EMBLEM THE Tongue is an InfirumenÉ, by the help ófwhich the Mind difcovers ics Sentiments, for itexprefles it felf either by that, or by the Pen> which^ like Vol.!. which is the Index of the Mind. Si like a illent Tongue fometimes fupplies its place, draw-ing on Paper the Words which í
. The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems . Subje<5ts of fome Commonwealths, naythe Magistrates themfelves, in whofe Hands the Go-vernment is, think whether it were poihble for anyTyrant to enilave them more than thole very Peribns £18) It a trepMi, libertas corrumpebatur. Tac. 1. Ann. EMBLEM THE Tongue is an InfirumenÉ, by the help ófwhich the Mind difcovers ics Sentiments, for itexprefles it felf either by that, or by the Pen> which^ like Vol.!. which is the Index of the Mind. Si like a illent Tongue fometimes fupplies its place, draw-ing on Paper the Words which íhould have been utter-ed by the Voice. From both the one, and the other 5-one may draw a probable conjecture of a Mans Partsand Capacity. For by Speech , Wlfdom JJtall be known ,-and Learning by the Word of the Tongue (i). Hence KingJlphonfo, the Wife, fpeaking in his Laws how a Princeought to carry himfelf in his Convention, what Mo-deration he íhould ufe in fpeaking ,♦ among otherthings fays, Multiloquy makes their Words unregard-ed, and if a King be not a Man of good Senfe, hisTongue foon difcovers the defect; for as an EarthenPot is tried by the Sound , lb is a Mans Senfe by hisWords 1. A Comparifon which he íéems to have bor-rowed from this Paflage of Perjim ; Sonat njltwm per cuff a maligna 0 R
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