 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...  The Eclectic Review - Page 349edited by - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Basil King - 1924 - 182 pages
...truth has been expressed. The conclusion, with its emphasis on little children and the lowly beasts — "six score thousand persons that cannot discern between...their right hand and their left, and also much cattle" is the version of our English Old Testament — has a beauty of its own. If I have been prolix over... | |
 | Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 396 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 ; and also much cattle?" THE BINDING OF FENRIS-WOLF1 SNORRI STURLUSON Two of the earliest... | |
 | Bernard De Voto - 1924 - 448 pages
...Listen to the motto of the Golden Book of Windsor. '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.' " It had been a benefit-night in Windsor. A theater, stuffed with... | |
 | Edward Chauncey Baldwin - 1927 - 256 pages
...God's all-embracing pity. "Should not I have pity on 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?" (IV:n) "More simply," says Cornill, "the truth was never spoken... | |
 | John Cooper - 1931 - 122 pages
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 | Paul Carus - 1918 - 860 pages
...calls out to the prophet Jonah: "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 ; and also much cattle?" (Jonah iv. 11). It is indeed of great interest to know that in their... | |
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