...days of Paul the apostle "all the Athenians and strangers which were at Athens, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing ;" and yet the new things that they heard, all put together, did not teach them to find out God. They ignorantly...

...with it. We read in the Acts, that " all the Athenians and strangers at Athens spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing;" and hence, when St. Paul was at Athens, they were curious to know what new thing it was which he had to...

...England, may be seen a class of individuals, mere hangers on in ail places of public resort, " who spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing," yet looking like dullness personified, and perpetually violating that most excellent rule...

...England, may be seen a class of individuals, mere hangers on in all places of public resort, " who spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing," yet looking like dullness personified, and perpetually violating that most excellent rule...

...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 throughout our land....

...of the natural philosopher; in the busy curiosity of the unoccupied citizen who spends his time "in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing," and in the untiring devotion of the scholar, poring with bended form over the classic pages of ancient...

...but either to tell or to hear some new thing" — these baptized heathens, worse than the unbaptized, spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear eome evil thing. Can domestic piety exist in such an establishment t Is religion ever thought upon...

...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...

...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...

...Athenians mentioned in the seventeenth of Acts were of the idly-curioua sort. They spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing. And you may notice many like them now. They saunter at the post-office, merely to hear the news ; they...