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... Letters - Page 71by Francis Bacon - 1854Full view - About this book
| Christopher Ridley Pearson - 1881 - 220 pages
...(Matt. xvi. 1-4, xxi. 23-27, xxii. 46, xxvi. 62, 63, xxvii. 14 ; Luke xiii. 17). Application. — That there is " a time to speak, and a time to keep silence " (Eccles. iii. 7), is specially true of controversies about religion. On sacred themes (as on secular)... | |
| 1881 - 654 pages
...the matter of time. The glory of a pastoral visit is its seasonableness, and he must be the judge. If there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence, we may be certain that there is a time to visit pastorally, and a time to refrain from visiting. When... | |
| Henrietta Louisa Lear - 1882 - 232 pages
...Of whom shall I be afraid?" — J. RUSKIN. LVI. "Silence is ©olien." '"PHE Wise Man observes that "there is a -*- time to speak, and a time to keep silence." One meets with people in the world who never seem to have made the last of these observations ; and... | |
| H. L. Sidney Lear - 1884 - 354 pages
...matter;" and going on to those he has in hand, says with quaint satire, " 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... | |
| James Copner - 1885 - 392 pages
...however, in it some shrewd remarks, as, for instance, this : — •" The wise man observes Q 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... | |
| Herbert Mortimer Luckock - 1885 - 400 pages
...transgressed the laws of God, dared to sit in the seat of judgment for the administration of justice. But " there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence," and so He held His peace ; for it was part of His predestined sufferings that He should be oppressed... | |
| Philip Norton - 1885 - 156 pages
...a positive disease. Bishop Butler speaks of such persons as follows : " 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... | |
| Edward John Hardy - 1887 - 300 pages
...He thus speaks in his famous sermon on the government of the tongue : " 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... | |
| M. McLean - 1889 - 486 pages
...about the glorious work, nor even speaking of it, lest Heaven's sweet bloom should get rubbed off. But there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence, for all that. Cheering letters from the Thalians ; they are at Shanghai. They say that Mr. SDC Douglas... | |
| Garfield National Memorial Association - 1890 - 146 pages
...Miller, of Indiana." Mr. Miller said : MR. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOW CITIZENS : The book of all books says there is a time to speak and a time to keep silence. This august presence, the addresses wholly worthy of this great occasion, to which we have been permitted... | |
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