 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...  Lowe's Edinburgh magazine - Page 4621847Full view - About this book
 | Charles Edward Trevelyan - Great Britain - 1857 - 60 pages
...the answer of God to Jonah : — " Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand a-nd their left hand, and also much cattle ? " Owing, probably, to its commanding geographical position, there... | |
 | Children - 1858 - 298 pages
...complaint of the disappointed prophet: "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?" Nothing is * Jer. xix. 4, 5 ; see also ii., 34. said of the character of the persons who brought... | |
 | Babylon - 1860 - 398 pages
...may accept this product of the imagination as life-like, subtracting from it the " swarming streets," and the multitude " thronging upheaped," compared...thousand persons that cannot discern between their right band and their left hand," a proverbial expression for young children, are mentioned among its inhabitants.... | |
 | Philip Pugh - Arminianism - 1860 - 286 pages
...suck the breasts," Joel ii 16; " And shall 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 hand? Jonah iv. 11. The words italicised refer to young children. What mockery for a being thus... | |
 | Alexander Taylor (of Muthill.) - Bible - 1860 - 226 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?" Nineveh was at this time the metropolis of the Assyrian monarchy.... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1861 - 856 pages
...against it Now Nineveh vras an exceeding great city of three days' jonrney, .... wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand.'' Much difference of opinion exists among commentators as to the exact meaning of the phrase,... | |
 | 1863 - 788 pages
...gathered from what is said in the last verse of the Book : " 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" (grazing). The population of a place must have been immense in which... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - History, Ancient - 1864 - 574 pages
...Nin'eveh as 'an exceeding great city of three days'journey (round the walls) wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and left hand; and also much cattle.'* The fortifiedtions, according to the historians, were constructed... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 542 pages
..."Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city," said God to the angry prophet, " wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left ? " God's image must have been sadly defaced in the murderers of the poor inoffensive children... | |
 | rev. James Wright - Capital punishment - 1865 - 248 pages
...deeply guilty city of Nineveh : '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?' We have in the language and conduct of Emmanuel, the sweet, and -instructive, and crowning... | |
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