...The French nation especially perhaps, the Athenians of the modern world, are particularly given to ' spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing ' (Acts xvii. 21). Whether that accounts for the fact that the devotion of the Sucre Cceur...

...gossiping town of Norbury, many of whose inhabitants like those Athenians described in Holy Writ, " spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing : " only the " new " thing was not always true, but as often as not had no foundation whatever...

...disestablishment and disendowment, to giving English literature to " the Athenians and strangers, who spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing"—Acts xvii., 21. As Popery is considered, by English statesmen, to be a respectable affair...

...a word for Christ, but to little purpose. For now the people of Newcastle and the strangers therein spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing about the rebels; and, indeed, when I open my lips about aught else, I am oft regarded with...

...stalks fearlessly abroad, and strives to instil its poison into many an English home; when men seem to spend their time " in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing;" we may well pray for grace, to follow 8. Matthew's example, to hear above the confusion...

...The French nation especially perhaps, the Athenians of the modern world, are particularly given to ' spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell or* to hear some new thing ' (Acts xvii. 21). Whether that accounts for the fact that the devotion of the Sucre Cofur...

...crops had been gathered and the people had but little to do for six months, save Athenian-like, " to spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing" (Acts xvii, 21); and when upon this, came * Some wonder has been expressed why the members...

...it may well be said of the people at large, as it was in old times of the Athenians, — that they spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing. But mere intellectual activity, though it be exercised upon matters of the profoundest interest...

...pastimes and amusements, are carried away with every wind of fashion and folly, or, like the Athenians, spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing. Should an apostle reveal any thing concerning heaven or hell to persons thus indisposed...

...novelty, appealing to curiosity, serving mainly to supply stimulus for those who, like the "Athenians, spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing," the whole character of the miracle-worker is degraded by his pandering to this insatiate...