...that could not fail to prejudice the minds of a people of whom in general, it may truly be said, they spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing. On the 6th April the government is again urged by an arbitrary act to remove Scott, as there...

...without lustre under those which are larger and brighter in colour. But what will not be said by men who spend their time in nothing else but either ' to tell or to hear some new thing ' ? ' Let these supporters of impiety be classed for the future with Stoics and Epicureans....

...sometimes seems that the practitioners of this profession, like the Athenians of St. Paul's day, like to "[spend] their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing." However, readers of this journal are — or should be — aware also of the other side...

...bubble reputation, even at the Philistine's mouth. They who are ever crying "Lo here, and lo there;" who spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing: to whom a new fad is a pearl of great price ; feather-headed, hysterical, morbid people...

...without lustre under those which are larger and brighter in colour. But what will not be said by men who spend their time in nothing else but either . to tell or to hear some new thing ' ? * Let these supporters of impiety be classed l for the future with Stoics and Epicureans....

...would seem, those of the table. Just as the dissipation of the Athenians of the decline would be to ' spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing,' so the dissipation of the Boeotians of the decline would be to ' have at their call more...

...almost paradoxical to attempt the role of both. We are like the Athenians, however, who were said to spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing. So one may be forgiven, perhaps, if, for once, he pose as critic and prophet. The novelty...

...what is called its " failure." uncertainties tolerable or even enjoyable enough. They are content to " spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." It is enough for them that each new view is " interesting " ; they pass their life " ever...

...country, but it is greatly to be feared that the criticism St. Paul made of the Athenians, " that they spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing," is equally applicable to us. We may, in our inmost souls, regret that so many newspapers...

...that most of our educational theorists are like the men of Athens in at least this respect, that they "spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing," a little reflection shows that education, particularly in the remote past, has been eminently...