...travellers having arrived, brought inquirers to the gate ; for, as afoli, ' all the Athenians, and strangers there, spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing'." This famous City furnishes many interesting topicks of description, which (his intelligent...

...that the professors of religion must be mere hypocritical quibblers, who, like the Athenians of old, " spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." ,iFor," say they, "could men who were really earnest in the pursuit of truth, and who held...

...they never come to the knowledge of the truth." Others discuss, bnt like unto the Athenians of old,'.' spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing," and to (bit passage we might add Person, for gratification is now a days, as much sought after in the religious...

...and of Romans and Jews, not come to the agora to buy, for it was not a common market-place, but to "spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." He could also see, just across the agora, — indeed he could not help seeing, if his face...

...strangers among them, concerning whom we read in the Acts of the Apostles, that they spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing ; and whether what they hear, and what they report be true, is with them a matter of little consequence....

...so now, such men will overlook, or be indifferent to, the weightier matters of the soul, and will " spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing " (Acts xvii. 19, 21) ; and the burden of their cry will be, " Is there anything whereof...

...should not Socrates be in Boston? As in his own Athens, the Bostonians, and " the strangers that are there, spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." The greatest difficulty he finds, is in selecting a place to meet the various modern sophists...

...should not Socrates be in Boston ? As in his own Athens, the Bostonians, and " the strangers that are there, spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some hew thing." The greatest difficulty he finds, is in selecting a place to meet the various modern sophists...

...within the circle of every one's acquaintance, of whom, as of the Athenians, it may be said, " they spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing," Acts xvii. 21. But are we to consider this as a christian accomplishment ? If we are under...

...own writers. "All the Athenians," says St Luke, "and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing ;" and Demosthenes, their celebrated orator, represents them as spending their time in the places of public...