 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
 | David Mather Masson - 1851 - 314 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 ?' 161. The allusions in this beautiful narrative to the condition... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1852 - 744 pages
...210. t Travels, iii. 131. DOMESTIC AND PRIVATE LIFE. 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. This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly ;... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1852 - 674 pages
...210. t Travels, iii. 131. DOMESTIC AND PRIVATE LIFE. Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hnnd : and also much cattle. Jonah iv. 11 . This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly ;... | |
 | 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 ii . ,... | |
 | 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... | |
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