 | William James Darley Waddilove - 1838 - 272 pagina’s
...more comfort, still however, had I a heart that could feel more, I should be more inclined to s;iy. " oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...tears, ** that I might weep day and night," for the miserable state of poor sinners here left to themselves, and who in their blindness and their ignorance... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth - 1838 - 452 pagina’s
...Jeremiah ; I could say with the former, " I am distressed for thee, my brother," and with the latter, " 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 daughters of my people !" Nothing could be more lovely than the gradually narrowing banks... | |
 | Walter Henry Medhurst - 1838 - 646 pagina’s
...one third of the human race, is beyond measure distressing, and might well induce one to exclaim, " 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 this people." There are, doubtless, amongst such a vast concourse of human... | |
 | 1838 - 950 pagina’s
...recklessness usually testified on matters of eternal moment. His language will be that of the prophet : " 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" (Jer. ix. 1). His feeling will be that of the apostle, when he... | |
 | John Donne, Henry Alford - 1839 - 630 pagina’s
...it is spoken. God, in the person of Jeremiah0, weeps in contemplation of the calamities threatened, 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. It is God that was their father, and it is God, their God that... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pagina’s
...one third of the human race, is beyond measure distressing, and might well induce one to exclaim, ' 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.' Some score of individuals is all that the churches of England... | |
 | 1839 - 758 pagina’s
...one-tliird of the human race, is beyond measure distressing, and might well induce one to exclaim, " 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 this people." Appalled and burdened as the mind is under the weight of such... | |
 | John Donne - 1839 - 640 pagina’s
...it is spoken. God, in the person of Jeremiah3, weeps in contemplation of the calamities threatened, 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. It is God that was their father, and it is God, their God that... | |
 | John Donne - 1839 - 672 pagina’s
...it is spoken. God, in the person of Jeremiah*, weeps in contemplation of the calamities threatened, 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. It is God that was their father, and it is God, their God that... | |
 | American education society - 1839 - 496 pagina’s
...means been overrated. In view of these desolations, who can refrain from saying with the prophet: " 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 ! " We are debtors to these furnishing churches in our midst. Wo,... | |
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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... 
