 | John Stuart Mackenzie - 1918 - 296 oldal
...latter, I should suppose, the words of Sidgwick ' might be taken as final. " The Preacher has said that ' there is a time to speak and a time to keep silence,' and this ancient wisdom is not yet antiquated. But he has not said that there is a time to speak truly... | |
 | John Stuart Mackenzie - 1918 - 324 oldal
...latter, I should suppose, the words of Sidgwick * might be taken as final. " The Preacher has said that ' there is a time to speak and a time to keep silence,' and this ancient wisdom is not yet antiquated. But he has not said that there is a time to speak truly... | |
 | Edith Œnone Somerville, Martin Ross - 1919 - 324 oldal
...himself. Aunt Bessy, however, potentially Rabelaisian though she might be, was perfectly aware of the fact that there is a time to speak and a time to keep silence. " See here, Barty," she said, " let you go on now, and tell your mother not to be waiting tea for me.... | |
 | 1926 - 772 oldal
...she said nothing, merely nodding her head in acquiescence. Like most married women she had learned that there is a time to speak and a time to keep silence. " When I was George's age," the Colonel continued, " I realised that ' life is real, life is earnest,'... | |
 | 1862 - 1124 oldal
...another world ! SPEAKING TOO M ITCH.— The wise man observes, that Ikere is a time to tpcak, and a ii\ne to keep silence. One meets with people in the world...made the last of these observations ; and yet, these srreat talkers do not at all speak from their having anything to say, as every sentence shows, but... | |
 | 1949 - 108 oldal
...us Thine, that we may do Thy will. In Jesus' name. Amen. MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1947 WE KNOW, OUR FATHER, that there is a time to speak and a time to keep silence. Help us to tell the one from the other. When we should speak, give us the courage of our convictiois.... | |
 | 1880 - 1128 oldal
...entrusted with the command, to say what they themselves would have done under similar circumstances. . . . There is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence. I trust I shall not be misunderstood if I ask you to remember that the reputation of a general officer... | |
 | Eugene Aubrey Stratton - 1986 - 502 oldal
...who must lose their ancient names." Again he reflected on the lack of assertive action from Plymouth: "There is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence. We might have been happy, or, at least not so miserable, had some been able or willing to be taught... | |
 | Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns - 2009 - 294 oldal
...was likely to leave his family destitute if she did not take legal action against him, she replied that "there is a time to speak; and a time to keep silence, and that, at the present time, the latter was my duty" (111-12). Like Job, the difficulty of her situation... | |
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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... 
