 | Lady Maria Callcott - Botany, Medical - 1842 - 578 pages
...of oil their traditions allow them to burn on such occasions. 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?" GRASS. FestucaJluitans, Glyceria jluitans, — Sheep's Fescue, Flote... | |
 | James Gratrix - 1843 - 380 pages
...great city, wherein," though there may be many sinners whose iniquity is full, " are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left," and who consequently are free from actual sin ? It is to be hoped that this instruction brought Jonah to... | |
 | Christian life - 1843 - 142 pages
...population. " Should not^I spare Nineveh, that great city, whereiiI are, THE CHRISTIAN CITIZEN. more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left?" Almost every foreign visitor, who writes of this country, expresses astonishment at its vastness.... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1843 - 348 pages
...Ixxi. 6. Jonah iv. 11. God said, 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 ! Mark x. 14. Jesus said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not ; for of... | |
 | Christian Gottlob Barth - 1844 - 298 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 ?"a 52. THE LAST KINGS OP JUDAH. AFTER the division of the kingdom,... | |
 | 1866 - 824 pages
...borne any proportion to the are* occupied, like that which belongs to the towns and cities of ourdty. " Six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand " — a proverbial expression for yonng children — were mentioned as among its inhabitants... | |
 | J. Victor Wilson - Future punishment - 1846 - 344 pages
...night : And should not I have Mercy upon Ninevah, that great city, wherein are more than six-score thousand persons, that cannot discern between their right hand and their left, and also much cattle ?'— Jonah iv. 10, 11. 'I will have Mercy, and not Sacrifice.'— Mat. ix. 13; Hos. vj. 6. 'I came... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1850 - 758 pages
...exceeding great city of three days' journey," — " that great city, wherein are more than six-score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left, and also much cattle." f The prophet Nahum, who prophesied some 150 years later than Jonah, had a " burden of Nineveh" to... | |
 | J. Victor Wilson - Future punishment - 1846 - 334 pages
...a night: And should not I have Mercy upon Ninevah, that great city, wherein are more than six-score thousand persons, that cannot discern between their...right hand and their left, and also much cattle?' — Jonah iv. 10, 11. 'I will have Mercy, and not Sacrifice.' — Mat. ix. 13; Hos. ri. 6. 'I came... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - 1846 - 690 pages
...Doth God take care for oxen?" "And 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 hand ? and also much cattle ?" It cannot be the caprice of power. But if some high principle of... | |
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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 six score thousand persons that cannot... 
