...after laudable and substantial truths. The Athenians, says St Luke, and strangers that were there, spent their time in nothing else but either to hear or to tell some new thing; and were »•• to examine the people of England, the same ini pertinent temper leads the multitude into...

...among the Athenians ; and their philosophers, and the strangers who resorted thither for instruction, spent their time in nothing else but either to hear or to tell some new thing. It pleased God that one from a distant and obscure country should be now sent to declare to them truths...

...— as it is the fashion to style Boston, probably because so many of its inhabitants "spend their time in nothing else, but either to hear or to tell some new thing." The prediction is justified by glaring facts ; by the very waning of Socinianism, which has emptied...

...among the Athenians ; and their philosophers, and the strangers who resorted thither for instruction, spent their time in nothing else, but either to hear or to tell some new thing. It pleased God that one from a distant and obscure country should be now sent to declare to them truths...

..."News! have you, Nell?" says he cheerfully. "Why, little lass, you're getting like the Athenians, that spent their time in nothing else but either to hear or to tell some new thing." Some spirits can jest and joke even on the verge of that gulf that swallows time and space, nor with...

...and suck the juice out of it. But you will all remember what we are told of the Athenians, that they spent their time in nothing else but either to hear or to tell some new thing. These Athenians were a very clever people, the cleverest people, perhaps, that has ever been upon this...

...him with a mixture of curiosity and contempt. But any one with a novelty was welcome to those who " spent their time in nothing else but either to hear or to tell some new thing." They brought him therefore to the Areopagus, that he might make a formal exposition of his doctrine...

...nor an Athenian, for it is stated "all the Athenians and strangers which were there (ie in Athens) spent their time in nothing else but either to hear, or to tell, some new thing " (xvii. 21) ; nor yet a Cretan ; for Phenïcë is stated to be "a haven of Crete which lieth toward...

...and suck the juice out of it. But you will all remember what we are told of the Athenians, that they spent their time in nothing else but either to hear or to tell some new thing. These Athenians were a very clever people, the cleverest people, perhaps, that has ever been upon this...

...culture. Not of modern culture only : the Athenians, we are told, were equally impatient of it, and spent their time in nothing else but either to hear or to tell some new thing. But is this a true verdict? Stone pavements, for instance, are very commonplace to us; so much so,...