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" 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 349
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The Obligation and Extent of Humanity to Brutes: Principally Considered with ...

William Youatt - 1839 - 238 pages
...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, and also much cattle?" If considerations of such a kind could have power in averting the destruction of Nineveh ; if the lives...
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Essay on cruelty to animals

James Macaulay - 1839 - 144 pages
...from its guilty inhabitants. " And shall 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. § 18. Many other reasons for humanity might be...
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Unitarianism Defended: A Series of Lectures

1839 - 966 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 T1IEIE LEFT ?"— Jonah iv. 9, 10, 11. PAIN affects us, as it comes near to us. The war or famine,...
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The whole works of Richard Graves, collected by his son, R.H. Graves, Volume 3

Richard Graves - 1840 - 468 pages
...slight suffering), 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, and also much cattle ?"* Now, let me ask, can we, after such a declaration as this, believe that God could ever issue unconditional...
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Tracts on the Church and the Prayer-book

Frederick William Faber - 1840 - 212 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 2 ?" Lastly, we come to a passage in which all the others seem to meet,...
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The natural history of society in the barbarous and civilized state

William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 800 pages
...wall of defence. The prophet Jonah describes Nineveh, as " 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." In this passage the mention of cattle clearly intimates that pastures...
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Notes: Critical, Explanatory, and Practical on the Book of the ..., Volume 1

Albert Barnes - 1840 - 540 pages
...and evil, is an expression that denotes infancy. Thus in Nineveh it is said there were " more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and left hand," commonly supposed to denote infants. Jonah iv. 2. Comp. Deut. i. 39. The meaning is, that...
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A Scripture Herbal

Lady Maria Callcott - 1842 - 578 pages
...of oil their traditions allow them to burn on such occasions. 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?" GRASS. FestucaJluitans, Glyceria jluitans, — Sheep's Fescue, Flote...
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The Unity of the Church

Henry Edward Manning - 1842 - 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 ?" 1 — can we doubt, I say, that He who chose out those people by...
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Sermons

James Gratrix - 1843 - 380 pages
...great city, wherein," though there may be many sinners whose iniquity is full, " are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left," and who consequently are free from actual sin ? It is to be hoped that this instruction brought Jonah to...
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