 | 1820 - 598 pagina’s
...they persevere in silence, is all the rest of the world bound to be silent also? There is, we admit, a time to be silent, as well as a time to speak; but are not all moral agents, who have the faculty of speaking or writing, to judge on their own responsibility,... | |
 | 1820 - 592 pagina’s
...they persevere in silence, is all the rest of the world bound to be silent also? There is, we admit, a time to be silent, as well as a time to speak; but are not all moral agents, who have the faculty of speaking or writing, to judge on their own responsibility,... | |
 | 1870 - 354 pagina’s
...that was' wrong, and to introduce everything that was right. He had not yet learned that there was " a time to be silent," as well as " a time to speak;" and that a word is most likely to be useful when it is " fitly spoken." He learned all that by-and-bye.... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - 522 pagina’s
...at all times and seasons ; for Wje are well aware of the injury, which such a course often produces. There is " a time to be silent," as well as " a time to speak." We would deprecate too, that species of cant, which is continually bringing in the name of our Maker... | |
 | 1885 - 302 pagina’s
...seasonable time, are " like apples of gold in pictures of silver." This spirit of temperance will teach us that there is a time to be silent, as well as a time to speak and act. Secondly, this spirit exerts an influence for good over the passions of the soul, such as love... | |
 | Jean-Baptiste Massillon - 1845 - 608 pagina’s
...confidence and intrepidity to all who have it on their side, has rendered you only weak and timid. I admit, that there is a time to be silent as well as a time to speak ; and that the zeal of truth hath its rules and measures ; but I would not that the souls, who know God and... | |
 | Ebenezer Carter Tracy - 1845 - 462 pagina’s
...they persevere in silence, is all the rest of the world bound to be silent also ? There is, we admit, a time to be silent, as well as a time to speak ; but are not all moral agents, who have the faculty of speaking or writing, to judge on their own... | |
 | 1850 - 590 pagina’s
...tartar," and remembering the adage " discretion is the better part of valour," you wisely discerned that there " is a time to be silent," as well as " a time to speak.") Brother McDougall commenced the task, but with frequent interruptions from Mr. Bowes, of extricating... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - 1850 - 86 pagina’s
...everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven ; " and the same authority has said that " there is a time to be silent " as well as " a lime to speak." It certainly cannot be the time to call " Peace, Peace," where there is no peace :... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1854 - 192 pagina’s
...world, when his uncle came in, and commenced, as usual, his remarks: " You ought to be told, Edmund, that there is a time to be silent, as well as a time to speak, for this should be known to all who would converse properly. Nay, in some cases, silence is even more... | |
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They knew that there was a book which taught them there was a time to be silent, as well as a time to speak. 
