 | William Cooke Taylor - Civilization - 1841 - 340 pages
...farms and pasturage, enclosed by a common wall of defence. The prophet Jonah describes Nineveh, as " that Great City, wherein are more than sixscore thousand...right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle." In this passage the mention of cattle clearly intimates that pastures were enclosed within the city... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Cities and towns, Ancient - 1841 - 370 pages
...me ; for it is better for me to die than to live." " Shall I not spare Nineveh," answered Jehovah, " that great city, wherein are more than six-score thousand...right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle V Sardanapalus was, of all the sovereigns recorded in history, the most effeminate and voluptuous ;... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Civilization - 1841 - 348 pages
...farms and pasturage, enclosed by a common wall of defence. The prophet Jonah describes Nineveh, as " that Great City, wherein are more than sixscore thousand...right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle." In this passage the mention of cattle clearly intimates that pastures were enclosed within the city... | |
 | Henry Edward Manning - Christian union - 1842 - 396 pages
...Nineveh, a heathen city, and Himself pleaded for their salvation with his overzealous prophet, saying, " Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou...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... | |
 | John Prentiss Kewley Henshaw - Sermons, American - 1842 - 534 pages
...Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not laboured neither made it grow ; which came up in a night, and perished in...cannot discern between their right hand and their left ?" The same affection which the Redeemer entertained for SERMONS. unoffending infant innocence,... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - Botany, Medical - 1842 - 578 pages
...compared with the beautiful and touching lesson conveyed in the two last verses. " Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the Gourd, for the which thou...perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, * In Hebrew Kikajon, called by Pliny Cici or Kiki. It is singular that the oil expressed from the seeds... | |
 | Christian literature for children - 1843 - 686 pages
...of great kindness, And repentest thee of the evil. Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry ? Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, Wherein...right hand and their left hand ; And also much cattle ? 79 Heading for any of the Six Days. THE SWALLOW. I see the swallow skim around, Xow here, now there,... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 764 pages
...be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even untodeath. 10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou...which came up in a night, and perished in a night : 11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons... | |
 | James Baillie Fraser - Assyria - 1842 - 352 pages
...following the same notation, we find the prophet Jonah sent to preach repentance to the Ninevites, in " that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand...right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle ;"t and that their unnamed king, and all his people, received the divine warning with reverence, humbling... | |
 | Matthew Hale Smith - Universalism - 1842 - 414 pages
...overthrown." They might have responded, "What, this great city be destroyed! — a city that contains sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between...right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle ! Impossible ; God is too good to destroy us, though we repent not." But not so reasoned the people... | |
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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 sixscore thousand persons that cannot... 
