| 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...excited to hear him. Aftev stating that " they took" Paul, " and brought him unto Areopagus," he says, " For all the Athenians and strangers which were there...in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." Here we have a clew to the object of the scene. Not only the Athenians, but the numerous... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...all our time and care. It was the vice of the Athenians, " for' all the Athenians and strangers that were there, spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing" (Acts xvii. 2 1) ; yea, novelty of doctrine and religion, and teachers, is a snare and bait... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 548
...all our time and care. It was the vice of the Athenians, " for all the Athenians and k strangers that were there, spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing" (Acts xvii. 21); yea, novelty of doctrine and religion, and teachers, is a snare and bait... | |
| Daniel Appleton White - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 72
...intellectual being ; at the best, never rising above that of the idlers whom Paul found at Athens, " who spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." But the pleasures, which flow from the pursuit and acquisition of real knowledge, and the... | |
| Irish pulpit - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...with patience, interest, and attention. Curiosity was the prevailing character of the Athenians — " For all the Athenians and strangers which were there,...in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." There was much in all this to satisfy their curiosity, and not a great deal, at first view,... | |
| James Hough - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 164
...in a state of excitement. They are little better than the sauntering philosophers of Athens, who " spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing " (Acts xvii. 21). Such persons are perpetually shifting their patronage from one society... | |
| 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 82
...thou bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know therefore what these things mean. (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there,...in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' Hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that... | |
| William Scoresby - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 112
...of spirit which impels to an unhealthful pursuit after novelties, like the Athenians of old, who " spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." Let us beware of those excitable affections, wont to be stirred up by inferior considerations,... | |
| John Kershaw Craig - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...God, is given of all the people. " All the Athenians, and all the strangers which were in the city, spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." Behold, I say, in that description the universal condition of fallen nature ! The heart... | |
| 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 1322
...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 in fair discussion.... | |
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