 | Jeremy Taylor - 1826 - 644 pages
...walking, thou wilt be the loser ; and for us, we can only say, in the words of the prophet, " We will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people :"• but our comfort is in God : for we can do nothing without him, but in him we can do all things... | |
 | George Bull - Christian life - 1827 - 518 pages
...suffered little less in the prophecy, than they should in the event of it. He begins, verse 1, thus : O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...and night for the slain of the daughter of my people ! As if he had said, I think I can never grieve sufficiently for the dismal slaughter and destruction... | |
 | George Bull - Christian life - 1827 - 514 pages
...suffered little less in the prophecy, than they should in the event of it. He begins, verse 1, thus : O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people! As if he had said, I think I can never grieve sufficiently for the dismal slaughter and destruction... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 688 pages
...keep not thy law. JER. ix. 1: 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. do. xiii. 17: But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine... | |
 | Plain Truth - 1827 - 66 pages
...in the house of her friends; "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 v of my people." Well I may seek to exhort those, whose calling it is to exhort their fellow sinners,... | |
 | Joseph Hervey Hull - English language - 1828 - 84 pages
...expresses samp strong emotion of the mind, and is generally followed by a note of admiration ; as, " O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men !" Rhetorical disposition or arrangement, is the placing of the arguments, or the parts of a discourse,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1828 - 268 pages
...such as surprise, admiration, joy, grief, and the like. " Wo is me that 1 sojourn in Mesecn, thai 1 dwell in the tents of Kedar !" Psalms. " O that my...for the slain of the daughter of my people ! O that 1 had in the wilderness a lodging-place ot wayfaring men 1" Jeremiah. IRONY. Irony is expressing ourselves... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...them, but they have refused to receive correction, &c. They refused to return. — Jer. v. 3. ii. 30. O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night, for the slain of the daughter of my people. — Jer. ix. 1. My soul shall weep in secret places for your pride : and mine eye shall weep sore,... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...strongest emotions of the mind; and is produced by sudden joy, surprise, admiration, grief, &c. As: — O that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people! NOTE. When this figure is judiciously employed, it produces a very sensible effect. It imparts, through... | |
 | American Temperance Society - Temperance - 1828 - 742 pages
...indignation of the father of the fatherless, and the judge of the widows, they are ready to say, " O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughters of my people." Nor is their grief assuaged, or their righteous indignation abated, by the... | |
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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! 
