 | Joseph Dixon - 1853 - 538 pages
...than one scriptural allusion. (See Jerem., xxx., 19; Zach., viii., 5.) The words of Zacharias are : " And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls, playing in the streets thereof." In the gospel according to St. Matthew, our Redeemer takes a comparison from an amusement practised... | |
 | William Lovett - 1853 - 496 pages
...AMUSEMENTS. " Let him not attempt to regulate other people's pleasures by his own tastes." — HELPS. " And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof." — ZECHAKIAH. " I can easily persuade myself, that, if the world were free, — free, I mean, of themselves,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 420 pages
...old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof . . . Thus saich the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the... | |
 | 1853 - 656 pages
...women, In the streets of Jerusalem, And the man whose staff is in his hand for multitude of days. 5. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls, Playing in the streets of it." The image here presented is one of great force and beauty. The city rises before us as the... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...be old men and old women dwelling in Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof." " Lately," says Drexelius, " the pro-bishop of Bamberg, in Thuringia, had administered the last sacraments... | |
 | 1854 - 496 pages
...tenth chapters of this same book. In the fifth and twelfth verses of the eighth chapter, we read, " And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls, playing in the streets thereof. .... The vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase." Again, in the present... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 342 pages
...old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staif in his hand for very age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof. Thus saith the Lord of hosts ; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these... | |
 | John Kitto - 1854 - 830 pages
...from alarm that the young take their usual games, and are allowed entire liberty by their parents: — 'and the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof (comp. Jer. xxx. 19). An interesting passage illustrative of these street-amusements is found in Matt.... | |
 | 1854 - 532 pages
...tenth chapters of this same book. In the fifth and twelfth verses of the eighth chapter, we read, " And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls, playing in the streets thereof. The vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase." Again, in the present passage,... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg - 1855 - 488 pages
...great is his beauty ! Corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the virgins," Zech. ix. 17. "And the streets of the city shall be full of boys...girls playing in the streets thereof," Zech. viii. 5. " The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground ; what thing shall I liken to tliee,... | |
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Thus saith the Lord of hosts : There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof. 
