 | Dyer Hook Sanborn - 1848 - 300 pages
...or Ecpnonesis is the use of pathetic language, which indicates the strong emotions of the mind ; as, "O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night, for the slain ol the daughter of my people ! O that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men... | |
 | George Peck - 1848 - 498 pages
...waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law." With the plaintive Jeremiah, he exclaims, " O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people ! 0 that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men... | |
 | Edward J. Hallock - 1849 - 262 pages
...— Bible. 1 1 . Ecpltonesis is a pathetic exclamation denoting a strong emotion of the mind ; as, " O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people !" — Bible. " O liberty ! O sound once delightful to every Roman... | |
 | 1849 - 380 pages
...dejection, yet submissive and sanctified. He uttered as he passed, with a tone of affecting pathos, " O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my' people!" Many others of remarkable appearance were passing before me,... | |
 | James Foote - 1849 - 698 pages
...are lying dead in sin? These are the most pitiable of all objects, these are the wretched indeed. " O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people." But exhortations and tears will never, of themselves, prevail... | |
 | Ralph Waller - 1850 - 382 pages
...wept at the grave of Lazarus. Elijah was filled with grief for the sins of Israel. Jeremiah said, " O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people." Jer. ix. I. And Paul exclaimed, "I have great heaviness and continual... | |
 | Wilhelm Martin Leberecht De Wette - 1850 - 584 pages
...no balm in Gilead ? Is there no physician there? Why, then, are not the wounds of my people healed ? O that my head were waters, And mine eyes a fountain...of tears, That I might weep day and night For the slain of the daughter of my people." (viii. 21, sqq.) Other instances may be seen in xiii. 17, and... | |
 | William Beveridge (bp. of st. Asaph.) - 1850 - 584 pages
...Saviour's passion, as we do this day, and not break forth into this, or the like lamentation for it, "O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears!" that I might weep day and night for the death of my blessed Saviour, and for my sins which were the occasion of it: that ever I should have... | |
 | James Gallaher - 1850 - 412 pages
...much, has been lost irrecoverably by the neglect of this momentous work during the last thirty years. " O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people ! " Those, only, who have traversed the mighty west in its length... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1850 - 570 pages
...grievously affected, when he found the divine messages he delivered were despised and rejected. He cried, " O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep " day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people." The faithful ministers of the gospel have reason to lament, when... | |
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O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people... 
