 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 286 pages
...founders of empire ; they said, " Go to, let us build us a city DANGERS OF AN HONEST MAN. 209 and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us...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... | |
 | 1864 - 868 pages
...Scripture receive illustration from the excavations of ancient Babylonia. Said the builders of Babel, " Go to, let us make brick and burn them thoroughly....had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar." In none of the ruins is there a trace of any other material than brick, either kiln or sun-dried. Clay... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - Bible - 1810 - 410 pages
...Sherlock on Prophecy. 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,...And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ;... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 438 pages
...for the execution thereof: " Go to," said the builders, " let us make brick and burn them throughly : and they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the earth." The Trinity adopts their language : " Go to," says God, " let us go down and there confound... | |
 | William Bengo Collyer - Bible - 1813 - 448 pages
...they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the laM 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... | |
 | Thomas Martin (civil engineer.) - 1813 - 714 pages
...their wives and children, departed from the eastward, and travelled into the land of Shinar. " And they said one to another, go to, let us make brick,...thoroughly ; and they had brick for stone, and slime,* hacl they for mortar." Whether these bricks were really exposed to the action of fire, as the passage... | |
 | 1845 - 624 pages
...remarks on Genesis xi. 3, where concerning the building of Babel it is said in our translation : — " They said one to another, Go to, let us make brick...had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar." This is incorrect. According to Buxtorff, and indeed the sense it still bears in these parts, ")DD... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Religion - 1816 - 728 pages
...the east, that they found a plain in the land of SJiinar, and they dwelt there. 3. And one man said to another : Go to ; let us make brick, and burn them...whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a mark (or signal), that we may not be scattered abroad upon the surface of every region, 5. And the... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Mythology - 1816 - 752 pages
...one man said to another : Go to ; let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick Jbr stone ; and slime had they for mortar. 4. And they...a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let tis make us a mark (or signal), that we may not be scattered abroad upon t tie surface of every region.... | |
 | 1817 - 1082 pages
...morter. j 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us t HI a city and a tower, * whose top may reach >,C" a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. 13 And Cain...unto the LORD, || My .im'«- "«» punishment u grea bAnd the LORD came down to see ' I. 1 Chron. cck,<-i«Aan.4,5, |C«.I4V«, the city and the tower,... | |
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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. 
