 | William Gearing - 1838 - 188 oldal
...to give them the rein, when the bit; when to let them loose, when to restrain them. Solomon says, " There is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence," Eccl. iii. 4. To this purpose there are divers circumstances, which are carefully to be observed by... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 864 oldal
...wind and the rain, shall neither sow nor reap ; " yet " there is a season for every action," and so " #L I J There is a time when the words of a poor simple man may profit; and that poor man in " The Preacher,"... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - 612 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,"... | |
 | 1868 - 414 oldal
...seeking that full knowledge which we need. 2. The unseasonableness of their silence is very manifest. There is a time to speak and a time to keep silence. This was a time to speak. The subject was impoitant, and Christ was there to explain. They were alone.... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Halifax - 1844 - 406 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 shews, but only from their inclination to be talking. Their conversation... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1846 - 524 oldal
...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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 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,...their having anything to say, as every sentence shows, hut only from their inclination to be talking. Their conversation is merely an exercise of the tongue... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1848 - 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... | |
 | Thomas Adams - 1848 - 912 oldal
...discretion, to preach at all times in themselves unseasonable. For there is a time to keep silence ; " There is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence," Eccl. iii. 7- But in season, to them that will hear ; out of season, to them that will not hear. Be... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 870 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,"... | |
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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... 
