| Massachusetts Historical Society - 1861 - 630 pages
...from New England in disguise by night, hath not a little contributed to our general disappointment. 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... | |
| Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1862 - 572 pages
...conversation) giving of characters, speaking well or evil of others. [13] 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 Hall - 1863 - 714 pages
...that 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 to... | |
| Joseph Lathrop - 1864 - 662 pages
...speak the whole truth. " A fool uttereth all his mind ; but a wise man keepeth it in till afterward." " There is a time to speak; and a time to keep silence." " And a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment." We are never to violate truth ; but we... | |
| 1866 - 536 pages
...and decay, and I cannot carry them into effect for lack of wisdom and strength. So I prove that as there is " a time to speak and a time to keep silence," so there is a time to write and a time to refrain therefrom, willing or unwilling. I find there is... | |
| George Trevor - 1869 - 314 pages
...not the living Church close the diptychs altogether as well as enter or expunge particular names ? There is a time to speak and a time to keep silence. Sometimes a seeming defect in form is required to redress the balance of a truth violently disturbed... | |
| 1871
...abhors no one so much as a still greater talker. ' The wise man observes,' says Bishop Butler, ' that there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence.' But he does not quote the wise man with perfect accuracy. The wise man says : ' There is a time to... | |
| William Braden - 1872 - 142 pages
...it his boast " that he became all things to all men, that he might win some." Naomi teaches us that there is " a time to speak and a time to keep silence," a time to entreat and a time to refrain from entreating, a time to argue and a time to yield in the... | |
| Bonaventura (st, card.) - 1873 - 400 pages
...useful words; but to evil words which rise from bad motions of the heart, it is ever to be closed. For there is a time to speak and a time to keep silence. f And he sins as much who withholds a word in season, as he who scandalises others by speaking evil... | |
| 1874 - 972 pages
...own loquacity. Butler, for once, is almost bitter and sarcastic : — " 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... | |
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