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" To him men's faces spake as much as their tongues, and their countenances were indexes of their hearts. He would so beset men with questions, and draw them on, that they discovered themselves whether they answered or were silent. "
State-worthies: Or, The Statesmen and Favourites of England from the ... - Page 399
by David Lloyd - 1766
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Annual Register, Volume 9

Edmund Burke - History - 1767 - 632 pages
...State-worthies . « He faid that an habit of fecrecy is policy and virtue. To him mens faces {poke as much as their tongues, and their countenances were indexes of their hearts. He would fobefetmen with queftions, and draw them on, and pick it out of them by piece-meals, that they difcovcred...
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A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ...

Biography - 1784 - 778 pages
...life from daily attempts and confpiracies. " To ' him," fays Dr. Lloyd, " mens faces fpoke as well as their ' tongues, and their countenances were indexes of their ' hearts. He would fo befct men with queftions, and ' draw them on, that they difcovered themfelves whether ' they anfwered...
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The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Volume 9

Edmund Burke - History - 1793 - 620 pages
...is policy and virtue. To him men's faces fpoke as much as their ^ tongues, and their countenance's were indexes of their hearts. He would fo befet men...and pick it out of them by piece-meals, that they discovered themfelves whether they anfwered or were filent. —He ferved himfelf of the factions at...
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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ..., Volume 31

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 496 pages
...confirmed his resolutions, he carried all before him in conclusion, without reply. To him men's faces spake as much as their tongues, and their countenances were indexes of their hearts. He would so beset men with questions, and draw them on, that they discovered themselves whether they answered...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...in his ' State- Worthies : ' "A habit of secrecy is policy and virtue." To him " men's faces spoke as much as their tongues, and their countenances were indexes of their hearts." He would so beset men with questions, and draw them on, and pick it out of them by piece-meals, that they discovered...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...his ' State- Worthies : ' "A habit of secrecy is policy and virtue." To him '• men's faces spoke as much as their tongues, and their countenances were indexes of their hearts." He would so beset men with questions, and draw them on, and pick it out of them by piece-meals, that they discovered...
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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

Biography - 1817 - 490 pages
...confirmed his resolutions, he carried all before him in conclusion, without reply. To him men's faces spake as much as their tongues, and their countenances were indexes of their hearts. He would so beset men with questions, and draw them on, that they discovered themselves whether they answered...
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The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 31

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 490 pages
...his resolutions, he carried all before him in conclusion, without reply. To him men's faces spake a« much as their tongues, and their countenances were indexes of their hearts. He would so beset men with questions, and draw them on, that 'they discovered themselves whether; they' ansSvered...
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Phrenology, in Connexion with the Study of Physiognomy: Part I ..., Part 1

Johann Gaspar Spurzheim - Celebrities - 1826 - 290 pages
...conversation was insinuating, but yet reserved ; he saw every one, and none saw him. To him men's faces spoke as much as their tongues, and their countenances were indexes of their hearts. Religion, in his judgment, was the interest of his country, as it was of his own soul ; it had his...
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Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ..., Volume 27

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 854 pages
...forms of déception. ' Tu him,' says his warm admirer and panegyrist, Lloyd, • men'i faces spake as much as their tongues, and their countenances were indexes of their hearts. He would so beset men with questions, and draw them on, that they discovered themselves whether they answered...
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