 | Joseph Butler - 1827 - 376 oldal
...which makes up too great a part of conversation, giving of characters, speaking well or evil of others. The wise man observes, that " there is a time to speak,...great talkers do not at all speak from their having any thing to say, as every sentence shows, but only from their inclination to be talking. Their conversation... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 558 oldal
...wind and the rain, shall neither sow nor reap ;" yet " there is a season for every action," and so " there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence." There is a time when the words of a poor simple man may profit ; and that poor man in " The Preacher,"... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 638 oldal
..." There is a season for every thing, and every thing is beautiful in its tune," Ecc. iii. 1, 11. " There is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence," says Solomon, ver. 7. Again, " A word spoken in due season, how good is it !" Prov. xv. 23. " A word... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 528 oldal
...wind and the rain, shall neither sow nor reap ;" yet " there is a season for every action," and so " there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence." There is a time when the words of a poor simple man may profit ; and that poor man in " The Preacher,"... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - 1837 - 516 oldal
...the rain, shall neither sow nor reap, Eccles. 9. 15, yet there is a season for every action ; and so there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence. There is a time when the words of a poor simple man may profit, and that poor man in the Preacher,... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1837 - 644 oldal
...that hath charged us to confess him, cannot but confess himself; Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said. There is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence. He, that is the Wisdom of his Father, hath here given us a pattern of both. We may not so speak, as... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1837 - 644 oldal
...that hath charged us to confess him, cannot but confess himself; Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said. There is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence. He, that is the Wisdom of his Father, hath here given us a pattern of both. Wo may not so speak, as... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1838 - 632 oldal
...which makes up too great a part of conversation, giving of characters, speaking well or evil of others. The Wise Man observes, that there is a time to speak,...great talkers do not at all speak from their having any thing to say, as every sentence shows, but only from their inclination to be talking. Their conversation... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1838 - 616 oldal
...makes up too great a part of conversation, giving of characters, speaking well or evil of others. , The wise man observes, that "there is a time to speak,...great talkers do not at all speak from their having any thing to say, as every sentence shows, but only from their inclination to be talking. Their conversation... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1838 - 642 oldal
..." There is a season for every thing, and every thing is beautiful in its time," Ecc. iii. 1, 11. " There is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence," says Solomon, ver. 7. Again, " A word spoken in due season, how good is it !" Prov. xv. 23. " A word... | |
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The Wise Man observes, that there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence. One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not at all speak from their having any thing... 
