 | William Bentley Fowle - 1843 - 314 páginas
...would know therefore what these things mean. (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.) Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed... | |
 | Cazneau Palfrey, Ezra Stiles Gannett - 1843 - 406 páginas
...Brazer's Discourse was founded on Acts xvii. 21 : "For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing ;" and the subject treated was, The depraved appetite for mental excitement that prevails... | |
 | 1853 - 672 páginas
...hunting novelties, resembled the brisk Yankees of this nineteenth century ; " for all the Athenians spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." To them it must have been as welcome an amusement as this latter-day demonstration has... | |
 | Churchman - 1844 - 396 páginas
...the Athenians was, you know, " wholly given to idolatry ;" and its lively and clever inhabitants " spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing."] There was once a time when the gods only existed, and as yet mortal creatures were not.... | |
 | Henry Jones Ripley - 1843 - 376 páginas
...would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.) 22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars-hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, 1 perceive that... | |
 | 1844 - 304 páginas
...ftllL\K, AM My dear Young Friends, — It was once said about a people who were named Athenians, ihat they 'spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing.' Now, children are very like this race of men. They want to hear and to talk about some... | |
 | London St. Giles, Cripplegate - 1844 - 638 páginas
...OUR PRAYERS AND PRAISES FOR THE CHURCH OF GOO? For all the Athenians and strangers that were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.— Acts xvii. 21. IN the text chosen for me to speak of, and for you to hear, I do observe,... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1878 - 830 páginas
...old story now. I know that the Royal Society is like those Athenians of whom it was said that they " spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." Therefore, an idea to be suitable for the Royal Society ought to be brand new. But I shelter... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1845 - 250 páginas
...the latter were constantly employed in discussions with each other, while the rest of the people " spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." (Acts xvii. 21.) The Apostle Paul preaching to the Athenians on Mare-hill: 6. Here Paul's... | |
 | 1871 - 792 páginas
...duty to God and man to gratify it. It ia mentioned, to the disgrace of the men of Athens, that they "spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing." To gratify this vain curiosity, their time is employed in retailing the news of the day.... | |
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May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21. (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing... 
