| Alexander MacLeod - 1867 - 352 стор.
...beginning, they could not deny the possibility of its having an end." — Macknigkt. Among people who " spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing," a new system of theology naturally follows in the wake of a new system of semi-scriptural,... | |
| 1868 - 370 стор.
...countrymen are journal-devouring creatures. For all the men of Coventry Island, and strangers which are there, spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing. They have improved however, on the science of news-telling and news-hearing, as practised... | |
| James Hamilton - 1869 - 568 стор.
..." Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing."—! THESS. v. 16, 17" THE Athenians spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing ;" and whatever may have become of the Attic elegance and the Attic genius, modern society is not deficient... | |
| 1907 - 1184 стор.
...America, New York City is the Blind . „ . ' ._ ., .. ' ' its Corinth. But if all the Bostonians do not " spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing," neither are all New Yorkers engaged in nothing else than in making money and spending it... | |
| David Thomas - 1871 - 784 стор.
...instead of investigating the true, the people were raving after the new. " They spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." And when the love of the new gains ascendancy over the love of the true, degeneration is inevitable. The... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1872 - 618 стор.
...parallel holds good — seeing that the Athenians of the west, like their predecessors, are accustomed to spend their time " in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing." We can even imagine the Mutual Admiration Society — "certain philosophers of the Epicureans... | |
| David Henry Hamilton - 1873 - 774 стор.
...frivolity, and dissipation. " 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 first temptation of the devil was addressed to the inquiringness, curiosity, and marvellousness... | |
| Charles Maurice Davies - 1875 - 462 стор.
...A SERMON ON PHYSIOLOGY. FOE those antitypical Athenians of the nineteenth century who would fain " spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing" it is a good deal to be able to say that at the Church of St. James, Westmoreland Street,... | |
| 1875 - 650 стор.
...Paul the Apostle, and Luke his historian, who said of tho Grecian metropolitans of his day, " They spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing." Yes ; the Aberdonians were Athenian in their curiosity ; for when " the New Lights " came... | |
| 1875 - 326 стор.
...was going to say. Indeed, the Appolonians are very much like the Athenians in this respect, that they spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing. When I arrived at the place, I stood up and preached from, "And the times of this ignorance... | |
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