| Richard Graves - 1840 - 468 pages
...the remarkable declaration; " Doest thou well to be angry (at that slight suffering), 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 ?"* Now, let me ask, can we, after such a declaration as this, believe that... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 800 pages
...defence. The prophet Jonah describes Nineveh, as " 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." In this passage the mention of cattle clearly intimates that pastures were enclosed within the city... | |
| Frederick William Faber - Church - 1840 - 212 pages
...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 2 ?" Lastly, we come to a passage in which all the others seem to meet, and by which we may explain... | |
| 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... | |
| Tracts - 1841 - 406 pages
...labored, 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...discern between their right hand and their left hand ?"t — and who are not likely, one .would think, to have discerned the future merits of the Redeemer.... | |
| Egypt - 1841 - 214 pages
...represented as being very great ; it contained more than six score thousand persons that could "not discern between their right hand and their left hand ; and also much cattle," Jonah iv. 11. This statement is generally understood to include young children, who are usually reckoned... | |
| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 764 pages
...laboured, neither madest it grow ; which came up in a night, and perished in a night : 11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more...right hand and their left hand ; and also much cattle ? LECTURE 1421. The ends for which God chastises us. Here we see the selfishness of the heart of man... | |
| Christian literature for children - 1843 - 686 pages
...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 are more...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,... | |
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