 | lady Emily Charlotte M. Ponsonby - 1851 - 742 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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,"... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1856 - 576 pages
...giving of characters, speaking well or evil of others. The Wise Man observes, that there is a tune to speak and a time to keep silence. One meets with...never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these gr-eat talkers do not at all speak from, their having anything to say, as every sentence... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...will observe and keep clear of these, they may be as free and easy and unreserved as they can desire. The wise man observes that " there is a time to speak,...never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not at all speak from their having anything to say, as every sentence... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...will observe and keep clear of these, they may be as free and easy and unreserved as they can desire. The wise man observes that " there is a time to speak,...never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not at all speak from their having anything to say, as every sentence... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1860 - 494 pages
...escape." Or is the following such as the witty Dean of St. Patrick's need have blushed to acknowledge ? " The wise man observes, that ' there is a time to speak,...never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not at all speak from their having anything to say, as every sentence... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 296 pages
...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... | |
 | Staphen Grellet - 1860 - 500 pages
...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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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 anything to say, as every sentence... 
