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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... "
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The Crisis of the Churches

Leighton Parks - 1922 - 296 pages
...meaning is clear. This is the end of the prophetic spirit which loves its own shelter more than the "six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and then* left hand; and also much cattle." "But who are such?" it may be asked. They are the religious...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 18

1923 - 632 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?" I believe the last phrase, "also much cattle," is pure bathos. My...
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Harper's Magazine, Volume 149

1924 - 962 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...
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Harper's Magazine, Volume 149

1924 - 848 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...
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The Bible and Common Sense

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...
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Progressive Readings in Prose

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...
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The Crooked Mile

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...
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The Prophets

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...
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The Open Court, Volume 32

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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Déliberations Et Mémoires de la Société Royale Du Canada

Royal Society of Canada - 1887 - 580 pages
...gourd is thus set forth : " 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 ? " That the Ninevites and the ancient dwellers on the Euphrates and the Tigris were a right-handed...
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