 | Cazneau Palfrey, Ezra Stiles Gannett - 1843 - 406 sider
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1843 - 428 sider
...occupied their attention instead of politics. " 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. In consequence of listening to continued disputes, the Athenians had become... | |
 | London St. Giles, Cripplegate - 1844 - 638 sider
...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,... | |
 | 1844 - 304 sider
...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... | |
 | 1853 - 672 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1845 - 314 sider
...to maternal duty, than the exciting system of the ancient Athenians, who, according to the Apostle, "spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing." "Transplant thyself into some enclosed ground," said an ancient writer, " for it is hard... | |
 | Henry Hammond - 1845 - 644 sider
...know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which 12 were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.) 22 If Then ' Paul ' Paul being brought before the judges in Areopastood in the midst of... | |
 | 1871 - 792 sider
...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... 
