 | Charles Gore - 1926 - 1070 pages
...what is called its " failure." uncertainties tolerable or even enjoyable enough. They are content to " spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." It is enough for them that each new view is " interesting " ; they pass their life " ever... | |
 | 118 pages
...would seem, those of the table. Just as the dissipation of the Athenians of the decline would be to ' spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing,' so the dissipation of the Boeotians of the decline would be to ' have at their call more... | |
 | 1908 - 786 pages
...almost paradoxical to attempt the role of both. We are like the Athenians, however, who were said to spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing. So one may be forgiven, perhaps, if, for once, he pose as critic and prophet. The novelty... | |
 | Schoolmasters' Association of New York and Vicinity - 1893 - 1158 pages
...society before she can speak grammatically, much less elegantly. Like the Athenians in Paul's day, they •spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear ome new thing, "but their "new thing" is not the fresh, vigorous bought of the cultured citizen of... | |
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