| 1822 - 554 páginas
...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 us...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of (the earth. And the Lord came down to see the city, and the tower, which the children of men builded.... | |
| 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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| George Paxton - 1825 - 598 páginas
...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 páginas
...future offspring. This is agreeable to the account, which the builders of Babel give of their design. " And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a...may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name," or as it may be rendered, a mark or sign, " lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole... | |
| Thomas Wetherald - 1826 - 360 páginas
...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...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 had brick for stone,... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 296 páginas
...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 - 298 páginas
...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 - 298 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
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