 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1823 - 402 pages
...Leviathan of sermons, on the repentance of Nineveh, as described in the book of Jonah. " And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more...right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?" Jonah 4. 11. The design is to make London, which is described as a Nineveh in corruption, a Nineveh... | |
 | William Harris - Death - 1821 - 184 pages
...laboured, neither made 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...cannot discern between their right hand and their left ; and also much cattle*?" That the periphrasis employed in this gracious declaration is descriptive... | |
 | William Thomas Bree - 1821 - 414 pages
...impatience, as 'Moses and other holy writers have doue, without concealing any circumstance of it. \\.-sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left] That is, infants, who " have no knowledge between good and evil," as it is expressed,' Deut.... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1823 - 398 pages
...spring-head, / 3. The stream which should flow from it, spare 4. The channel in which it should run, Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot, The last part is, at page 61, subdivided thus : " Now let us come to the channel ; Nineveh, that great... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 324 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 good-nature of this sort, with... | |
 | Lady - Bible - 1824 - 452 pages
...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...right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle ?" By this beautiful illustration, the prophet's selfishness was reproved, and an affecting moral left... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 522 pages
...hast had pity on (or spared) the gourd, &c. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, where are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left ? — Jonah iv. 10, 11. A man's enemies are the men of his own house: therefore I will look unto... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 530 pages
...hast had pity on (or spared) the gourd, &c. And should not I .spare Nineveh, that great city, where, are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right baud and their left ? — Jonah iv. 10, 11. A man's enemies are the men of his own house: therefore... | |
 | Hugh McNeile - Sermons, English - 1825 - 472 pages
...neighbourhood of Sodom, and are supposed to have perished with it.— See Genesis xiv. 8. should not I spare Nineveh that great city wherein are more than...right hand and their left hand : and also much cattle ?" Well and wisely did David say, when a choice of evils was proposed to him, " Let us now fall into... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 698 pages
...cry in Egypt ; for there was not a house where there was not one dead, xii. 29, 30. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more...cannot discern between their right hand and their left : andalsomuch cattle? Jonah iv.l 1. c For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection... | |
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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... 
