 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 sixscore thousand persons that cannot...  Plea for mercy for animalsby James Macaulay - 1875 - 160 pagesSnippet view - About this book
 | English literature - 1803 - 440 pages
...extends to the meanest rank of his creatures, is expressed with wonderful tenderness : " Should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons... .and also much cattle!" And we have in Deuteronomy a precept of great goodnature of this sort, with... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1806 - 416 pages
...beautiful and comfortable a plant should 11 he so soon destroyed, and thou wouldst have had it spared : 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]... | |
 | Laurence Howel - Bible - 1807 - 588 pages
...came up in a night, and perished in " a night : and should not I spare Nineveh, that great ci" ty, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons "...cannot discern between their right hand and their " left ; and also much cattle ?" Here the Book of Jonah ends ; but it gives no account of what became... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...upon tiicc from the womb, thou art my God from my mother's belly. Ps. Ixxi. 6. Jonah iv. 11. God said should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons, that cannot discern them between their right hand and their left ? Mark... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...thou hast not laboured, neither modest it grow ; which came up in a night, and perished in a night : And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein...between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle ? Then said the Lord, I have done this purposely to shew thee thine own error and... | |
 | James Macknight - 1809 - 644 pages
...where God makes hii compassion to brute beasts, one of the reasons why he would cot destroy Nineveh. " 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... | |
 | Ezekiel Blomfield - Bible - 1809 - 690 pages
...where God makes his compassion to brute beasts one of the reasons why he would not destroy Nineveh : " Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six icore thousand persons,' that cannot discern between their right hand and their left, and also... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 498 pages
...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 discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also... | |
 | Missions - 1821 - 632 pages
...had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast Hot laboured, neither made it grow : And should not 1 spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than...between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle. — Jonah iv. 9 — 11. VI. " He that is soon angry with another, has just reason... | |
 | Missions - 1837 - 714 pages
...thou hast not laboured, neither msdest 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 discern between their right hand and their left, and also much... | |
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