 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1846 - 524 pages
...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 pages
...conversation, giving of characters, speaking well or evil of others. 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... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1848 - 632 pages
...of conversation, giving of characters, speaking well or evil of others. 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... | |
 | Thomas Adams - 1848 - 912 pages
...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 pages
...comfort, although it be before his trial. CXLII. AN EXPOSTULATION TO THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE COKE.t MY VERY GOOD LORD, THOUGH it be true, that " he who...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,"... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1852 - 606 pages
...to time to publish any such revocations or addi« tions. AN EXPOSTULATION LOUD CHIEF JUSTICE COKE. MY VERY GOOD LORD, Though it be true, that " he who...and so "there is a time to speak, and a time to keep their labour, and cannot charm the deaf adder. God, therefore, before his Son that bringeth mercy,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1852 - 448 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 866 pages
...for his preparing and comfort, although it be before his trial. CXLII. AN EXPOSTULATION TO THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE COKE, t MY VERY GOOD LORD, THOUGH it...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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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... 
