 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we 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.)  The Church Quarterly Review - Page 2671882Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Schools - 1799 - 198 pages
...faithful description given both by Demosthenes and the apostle Paul, of their spending their time in "nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing," Acts xvii. 21. Again, the spirit of the heathen religion not only withheld . truth from the people, and countenanced... | |
 | 1812 - 778 pages
...having arrived, brought inquirers to the gate ; for, as afoli, ' all the Athenians, and strangers there, spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing'." This famous City furnishes many interesting topicks of description, which (his intelligent... | |
 | 1842 - 612 pages
...that the professors of religion must be mere hypocritical quibblers, who, like the Athenians of old, " spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." ,iFor," say they, "could men who were really earnest in the pursuit of truth, and who held... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1816 - 642 pages
...they never come to the knowledge of the truth." Others discuss, bnt like unto the Athenians of old,'.' spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing," and to (bit passage we might add Person, for gratification is now a days, as much sought... | |
 | 1854 - 1112 pages
...Stoics, and of Romans and Jews, not come to the agora to buy, for it was not a common market-place, but to "spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." He could also see, just across the agora, — indeed he could not help seeing, if his face... | |
 | 1847 - 648 pages
...sacre^f' historian : — " 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." (Acts xvii. 21.) Demosthenes, in one of his Orations, delivered three centuries earlier, speaks of them in the same... | |
 | 1852 - 1174 pages
...so now, such men will overlook, or be indifferent to, the weightier matters of the soul, and will " spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing " (Acts xvii. 19, 21) ; and the burden of their cry will be, " Is there anything whereof it may be said, See, this... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 548 pages
...vice of the Athenians, " for all the Athenians and k strangers that were there, spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing" (Acts xvii. 21); yea, novelty of doctrine and religion, and teachers, is a snare and bait to carnal fancies, which many... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 544 pages
...vice of the Athenians, " 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. 2 1) ; yea, novelty of doctrine and religion, and teachers, is a snare and bait to carnal fancies,... | |
 | James Hough - 1832 - 164 pages
...excitement. They are little better than the sauntering philosophers of Athens, who " spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing " (Acts xvii. 21). Such persons are perpetually shifting their patronage from one society to another. To cater for a morbid... | |
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