 | British poets - 1822 - 268 pàgines
...to unity again. Avarice and ambition only were the first builders of towns, and founders of empire ; they said, " Go to, let us build us a city and a tower...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the earth '." What was the beginning of Rome, the metropolis of all the world ? What was it, but a... | |
 | 1822 - 554 pàgines
...journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar ; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick,...had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Ho to, let us build us a city, und a tower whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1822 - 252 pàgines
...to build their tower, which was the same that is called in scripture, the " Tower of Babel." 22. And they said one to another, " Go to, let us make brick...had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar ; and began to build the tower, which is thought to have been an idol temple. 23. And here the Lord... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1894 - 602 pàgines
...closely observing the stars. ' Let us build us a city and a tower,' said the companions of Noah, ' whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.' Herodotus, who lived only a short time after the Great Temple of Babylon was, according... | |
 | Whitlock Nicol - 1823 - 356 pàgines
...of Shinar ", in which spot afterward stood the famous city Babylon °. And the people said, " Let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth P." And " the Lord confounded their language, and scattered them abroad from thence... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1824 - 420 pàgines
...journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the landofShinar and they dwelt there. — And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick...had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. — And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 598 pàgines
...indulge in conjectures, when the true reason is clearly stated in the page of inspiration : " Let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."11 These words clearly shew, that their object in building the tower was, to transmit... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1825 - 462 pàgines
...they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick,...had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto the heaven, and... | |
 | Thomas Wetherald - 1826 - 360 pàgines
...of the case was this. The children of Noah increased and spread abroad upon the face of the earth, " and they said, go to, let us build us a city, and...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." " And they said one to another, let us make brick and burn them thoroughly. And they... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 298 pàgines
...to unity again. Avarice and ambition only were the first builders of towns, and founders of empire ; they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the earth. What was the beginning of Rome, the metropolis of all the world? what was it, but a concourse... | |
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And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 
