 | 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... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 296 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... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 686 pàgines
...cohabitation, with (perhaps) some reserves to provide for their safety against a second storm, they cry, ' Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth;' Gen. xi. 4. First, They lay down their aim and design, and then let out the means... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 902 pàgines
...stone, and slime had they for morter. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, f whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. »ar: after tbh erent, he is of opinion that the primitive language was entirely l«t;... | |
 | Edwin Ferriss - 1827 - 208 pàgines
...show of grandeur in the face of all the people of the eirth. Gen. 11.4." \nd they said, go 10 let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto...a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face ol the whole earth." It appears that in consequence of their loolish ambition, anarchy endued : for... | |
 | James Wright - 1827 - 146 pàgines
...carrying the ark aa far as mount Caucasus before 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 heaven, and let... | |
 | Grierson, Miss Grierson - 1827 - 308 pàgines
...origin is given by Moses, who imputes it to the folly or ambition of that people who said, " Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto...let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the face of the whole earth."* But the ambitious aim of gaining a name, or renown, by building this... | |
 | Edwin Ferriss - 1827 - 210 pàgines
...face of all the people of the Pirth. Gen. 11.4. " And they said, go to let us build us a citv and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." it appears that in consequence of their foolish ambition, anarchy endued : for they... | |
 | Samuel Noble - 1828 - 536 pàgines
...the builders is so stated, as to leave no doubt of the symbolic meaning of the place they built : for they said, " Go to, let us build us a city, and a...whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name."f Whatever might be the nature of the historical fact here referred to, it is plain that the... | |
 | 1832 - 698 pàgines
...its ecclesiastical organizations. And as it was with certain projectors long ago, who said, " Let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto...let us make us a name lest we be scattered abroad ;" so with these builders, their tower will be BABEL. If the General Assembly had no seminaries, no... | |
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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. 
