...sinking to a premature decay beneath the galling yoke of the stranger. "The Athenians," says St Paul, "spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." We know of no other theory that will account for the fact, that nearly all the strolling...

...mischievous doctrines are widely promulgated among the unwary, and are eagerly received by those " who spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." So craftily are they interwoven with humorous or pathetic newspaper paragraphs, as well...

...these terms predicate immortality to our periodical, even to satisfy those who, like the Athenians, " spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." The men whose names have come down to us in remembrance, we estimate according to their...

...people leave church. Then the public places are thronged with buyers and sellers and loungers who " spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." Then the loud voice of the auctioneer and all the tumult of the market place begin. In...

...All men are imbued with the insatiate craving after novelty, which made the Atheneans of old — ' spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.' But novelty soon ceases to charm. The newest novelty devours the preceding. To enable a...

..." AtheG nians and strangers" at the doors of the coffee houses and in the streets, who appear " to spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear of some new thing."* We learn that the Agora was divided into markets, streets, and porticoes, which,...

...Compare the remarks of St. Paul on this Ionic tendency amongst the Athenians (Acts, xrii. 21), who " spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." 8 Herod, ii. 82. In Persia, every month was supposed to be under the guardianship of an...

...with the breathings of the ancient worship, and that, unlike the Athenian sects around them, " who spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing/^J ttiey are little swayed by the dogmas and " private interpretations of the preacher,"...

...with the breathings of the ancient worship, and that, unlike the Athenian sects around them, " who spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing," they are little swayed by the dogmas and " private interpretations of the preacher," and,...

...with the breathings of the ancient worship, and that, unlike the Athenian sects around them, " who spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing," they are little swayed by the dogmas and " private iut^rpreflitions of the preacher," and,...