 Lord, 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...  The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott - Side 141av Walter Scott - 1837 - 477 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Sarah Hall - 1837 - 376 sider
...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...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... | |
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...impress the rebellious prophet with the greatness of its population. " Should not 1 spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand...cannot discern between their right hand and their left ?" The magnitude of London is sublime. Almost every foreign visitor, who writes of the metropolis,... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1837 - 624 sider
...perished in a night: And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their...right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle? Then said the Lord, I have done this purposely to shew thee thine own error and weakness: thou hadst... | |
 | George Rogers - 1837 - 204 sider
...night ; And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand souls that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle." (Jonah iv. 10, 11.) The prophet, it seems, had been more painfully affected about the perishing of... | |
 | 1837 - 1068 sider
...Jonah 4: 11, that in Nineveh " there were more than six score thousand persons who could not discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle."* According to the common estimate this would give 600,000 for the entire population ; the same number... | |
 | 1837 - 628 sider
...impress the rebellious prophet with the greatness of its population, ' Should not 1 spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons, that cannot — art. • Pleasure— the ..uerprising find a field -miete of ambition and skill iiives of industry... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1838 - 264 sider
...use to him. 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...hand and their left hand ; and also much cattle?' This story proves to us that the Almighty is slow to be angry with his children ; and that when His... | |
 | Georg Lorenz Bauer - 1838 - 186 sider
...perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their...hand and their left hand ; and also much cattle?" — Chap. iv. 10, 11. Here is the thought that God is the Creator of the many inhabitants of Nineveh,... | |
 | Georg Lorenz Bauer - 1838 - 190 sider
...perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their...hand and their left hand ; and also much cattle?" — Chap. iv. 10, II. Here is the thought that God is the Creator of the many inhabitants of Nineveh,... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1839 - 144 sider
...Almighty, when he averted his judgments from its guilty inhabitants. " And shall not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand...right hand and their left hand, AND ALSO MUCH CATTLE?" — Jonah iv. 11. § 18. Many other reasons for humanity might be added, but I now proceed to notice... | |
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