 Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow ; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot...  Paul's Letters to His Kinsfolk - Page 206by Walter Scott - 1816 - 468 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Micaiah Hill, Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1853 - 474 pages
...night, and perished in a night ; and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left?" — JONAH iv. 11. § 1. THE present state of juvenile depravity, and the introductory great... | |
 | Catharine Irene Finch - 1854 - 494 pages
...night, and perished in a night. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left." By this description children are understood to be intended, from which we may form an idea of... | |
 | 1854 - 590 pages
...music of her banquetings — I hear the laugh, the whisper, and the sigh," &c. From the expression, " Six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left," the population has been estimated by different authors at from 600,000 to 2,000,000 souls. Jonah's... | |
 | 1855 - 222 pages
...overthrown, he said to Jonah, " Should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six-score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left ; and also much cattle ?" In this long drought in the land of Canaan, the cattle must have suffered greatly, and many of them... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 244 pages
...with his vindictive prophet : " Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle? Least of all ought we to wish that any part of the British forces... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1855 - 580 pages
...spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein XX.] THE PROPHET GUILTIER THAN HEATHENS. 349 are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand ; and also much cattle?'" The writer of this book must have been a very courageous as well... | |
 | William Ritchie (of Berwick-upon-Tweed.) - 1856 - 258 pages
...night and perished in a night. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand ?" If he so spares both them, and others on their account, when the crimes of adults cry... | |
 | Philip Charles Soulbieu DESPREZ - 1857 - 158 pages
...night and perished in a night, and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons, that cannot discern between...right hand and their left, and also much cattle." But leaving these illustrations of the situation in which we find the Prophet placed, we pause a moment... | |
 | Charles Edward Trevelyan - 1857 - 60 pages
...the answer of God to Jonah : — " Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand a-nd their left hand, and also much cattle ? " Owing, probably, to its commanding geographical position, there... | |
 | 1858 - 298 pages
...complaint of the disappointed prophet: "Should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left?" Nothing is * Jer. xix. 4, 5 ; see also ii., 34. said of the character of the persons who brought... | |
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