 | Walter Henry Medhurst - China - 1838 - 646 pages
...one third of the human race, is beyond measure distressing, and might well induce one to exclaim, " Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of this people." There are, doubtless, amongst such a vast concourse of human... | |
 | William James Darley Waddilove - Bishops - 1838 - 272 pages
...more comfort, still however, had I a heart that could feel more, I should be more inclined to s;iy. " oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...tears, ** that I might weep day and night," for the miserable state of poor sinners here left to themselves, and who in their blindness and their ignorance... | |
 | 1838 - 950 pages
...recklessness usually testified on matters of eternal moment. His language will be that of the prophet : " Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people" (Jer. ix. 1). His feeling will be that of the apostle, when he... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth - Ireland - 1838 - 462 pages
...Jeremiah ; I could say with the former, " I am distressed for thee, my brother," and with the latter, " Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughters of my people !" Nothing could be more lovely than the gradually narrowing banks... | |
 | 1841 - 538 pages
...almost at a loss, for he seems to have wept throughout, and notwithstanding he exclaims, weeping, " Oh ! that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people." Oh! what samples these are of holy fervour in preaching, and of... | |
 | John Donne - 1839 - 640 pages
...it is spoken. God, in the person of Jeremiah3, weeps in contemplation of the calamities threatened, Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people. It is God that was their father, and it is God, their God that... | |
 | Missions - 1839 - 430 pages
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 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...one third of the human race, is beyond measure distressing, and might well induce one to exclaim, ' Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.' Some score of individuals is all that the churches of England... | |
 | John Donne, Henry Alford - English poetry - 1839 - 630 pages
...it is spoken. God, in the person of Jeremiah0, weeps in contemplation of the calamities threatened, Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people. It is God that was their father, and it is God, their God that... | |
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OH that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people... 
