 | lady Emily Charlotte M. Ponsonby - 1851 - 742 oldal
...read. Advice, it is said, is only powerful when it puts into language the secret oracle of our souls. There is a time to speak and a time to keep silence ; and the time for speech is not at that moment when, through passion or excitement, the voice of the... | |
 | 1852 - 448 oldal
...unless the body is essentially healthy. It is false, or partial culBISHOP BUTLER ON TALKATIVENESS. THE wise man observes, that there is a time to speak...and a time to keep silence. One meets with people who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not all... | |
 | Barton Bouchier - 1852 - 336 oldal
...cutting self-reproaches, is not the season for rebuke ; and He who by His Spirit had before said, " There is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence," would not unnecessarily " bruise the broken reed." He no doubt recognised, even in the gushing accents... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 866 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,"... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 oldal
...which makes up too great a put 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... | |
 | Annie Keary - 1859 - 334 oldal
...her, worthy to draw down such a star from its sphere ? Oh ! Alice ! Alice! Alice!" 268 CHAPTER X. " The wise man observes that there is a time to speak,...never to have made the last of these observations." BISHOP BDTLER. CAROLINE'S first visit, made before the proper hour for fashionable visits had arrived,... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 296 oldal
...again. Adapted from Miss EDGEWORTH. WHEN TO HOLD OUE TONGUES. SOLOMON, the wisest of men, tells us that there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence. Now we often meet with little boys, and still oftener with little girls, who do not seem to agree with... | |
 | Stephen Grellet - 1860 - 1060 oldal
...service the Lord required of me. May I ever be preserved under the guidance of his blessed Spirit. There is a time to speak and a time to keep silence. I then went to Bath, and had a meeting with Friends, also in silence. In the evening a large one was... | |
 | Stephen Grellet - 1860 - 506 oldal
...service the Lord required of me. May I ever be preserved under the guidance of his blessed Spirit. There is a time to speak and a time to keep silence. I then went to Bath, and had a meeting with Friends, also in silence. In the evening a large one was... | |
 | Staphen Grellet - 1860 - 500 oldal
...service the Lord required of me. May I ever be preserved under the guidance of his blessed Spirit. There is a time to speak and a time to keep silence. I then went to Bath, and had a meeting with Friends, also in silence. In the evening a large one was... | |
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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... 
