...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...

...Beautiful ; visited Athens while its citizens still retained enough of the old inquiring spirit to "spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear something new ; " and at last came to martyrdom in Rome while the deceptive bloom of imperial splendour...

...truth. Nor have the Athenians disappeared from the list of gospel hearers, for there are those "who spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing," and when the novelty of the new doc-trine passes away, they will either mock the speaker...

...before it became comments. "the observed of all observers." The newspapers, those modern Athenians who spend " their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing," spied the infant prodigy, and their columns, usually destitute of a particle of religion,...

...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...

...without lustre under those which are larger and brighter in colour. But what will not be said by men who spend their time in nothing else but either • to tell or to hear some new thing ' ? ' Let these supporters of impiety be classed for the future with Stoics and Epicureans....

...poison — a wild beast which no man has ever yet completely tamed. " Athenians " still survive, who spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing; and idle gossip is twin sister to malicious slander, which has been aptly defined by a simple...

...parenthetically this very remarkable historic note : " For all the Athenians and the strangers that were there, spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." And this neophilism which the great Apostle of the Gentiles has given as an historic character...

...lamenting that he teaches merely the familiar. Neither of them has any message for an Athens where people spend their time " in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." But the psychologist meets with the further discouragement that what he describes is not...

...into history as far as unto Athen's pride and Athen's glory, you will discover a large class who " spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." Now beyond question this is an accurate description of a certain type of intellectual life...