| Robert Taylor - Free thinkers and freethought - 1829 - 466 pages
...perceive that ye are exceedingly addicted to the worship of demons." 3. ARCHBISHOP NEWCOMB'S VERSION. " Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are somewhat too religious." 4. COMMON VERSION. " Ye men of Athens, 1 perceive that in all things ye are... | |
| Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...loved you. SECTION II. Instructions of Paul the Jlpostle. \ Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars hill, and said, ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, 1 found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN... | |
| William Paley - Sermons - 1830 - 378 pages
...and Heathen Testimonies, Vol. III. p. 21.) Acts xvii. 22. ' Then Paul stood in the midst of Marshill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious ; for, as I passed by and beheld your devotions, I f mind an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNO... | |
| Asia - 1836 - 664 pages
...of those Athenians who fell in the batUcof Marathon," and temples glittering around him, exclaim : " Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious!" The temple of the Eumenides was below him, the Parthenon of Minerva facing him above; before him rose the... | |
| United States Anti-masonic Convention, Philadelphia - Freemasonry - 1830 - 192 pages
...Amens, were charged with it by the apostle Paul. He said, when he stood in the midst of Mars' Hill, " Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are» too superstitious. I found an altar with this inscription, 'To THE UNKNOwN GOD.'" When the light of the gospel spread... | |
| Sunday schools - 1830 - 410 pages
...the very spot at Athens where that great Apostle had stood, when he began that admirable sermon — "Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious;" coming from a land so distant, I may call myself called upon, not to philosophise or theorise, but... | |
| John Brewster - Bible - 1830 - 602 pages
...expressive of the sublimity of his thoughts) and addressed them in the language of their own orators, " Men of Athens ! I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious." It has been observed, that this expression will bear a softer sense than our translation implies ;... | |
| Gregory Townsend Bedell - 1830 - 212 pages
...world then, that Paul delivered one of his most masterly addresses. " Ye men of Athens," said he, " I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious." The word superstitious is now used only in a bad sense, that is, we mean by it, that persons who are superstitious... | |
| William Van Mildert (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 542 pages
...Christian. SERMON XI. St. Paul at Athens. ACTS xvii. 22,23. Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To THE I'NKNOH'N... | |
| David Booth - English language - 1831 - 408 pages
...St. Paul's famous address to the Athenians contains a notable example of this pronominal inversion: " Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To THE UNKNOWN... | |
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