 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...  The Quarterly Review - Page 2961856Full view - About this book
 | Cazneau Palfrey, Ezra Stiles Gannett - Liberalism (Religion) - 1843 - 406 pages
...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 - Greece - 1843 - 428 pages
...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... | |
 | Churchman - 1844 - 396 pages
...Christ. The city of 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.... | |
 | Christian education - 1844 - 304 pages
...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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1853 - 672 pages
...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... | |
 | London St. Giles, Cripplegate - 1844 - 638 pages
...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,... | |
 | Henry Jones Ripley - Bible - 1843 - 376 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - Classical geography - 1845 - 250 pages
...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... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Child rearing - 1845 - 314 pages
...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 - Bible - 1845 - 644 pages
...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... | |
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