 | English literature - 1869 - 622 pages
...GreatBritain. It is more than this. The whole world's map, which you may here discern in its perfectest motion, justling and turning. It is a heap of stones...the steeple not sanctified, nothing liker Babel. The noise in it is like that of bees, a strange hum, mixed of walking tongues and feet; it is a kind of... | |
 | Robert Nares - English language - 1872 - 552 pages
...world's map, which you may here discern in its perfect'st motion, jnsiling and turning. It is a hcape of stones and men, with a vast confusion of languages;...the steeple not sanctified, nothing liker Babel. The noy se m it is like that of bees, a strange humming or bu/.ze, mixt of walking, toiiifues and feet.... | |
 | William Longman - Church architecture - 1873 - 360 pages
...this — the whole walk world's map, which you may here discern in its perfectest motion, jostling and turning. It is a heap of stones and men, with...the steeple not sanctified, nothing liker Babel. The noise in if is like that of bees, a strange humming or buzz mixed, of walking, tongues, and feet ;... | |
 | 1873 - 824 pages
...about enquiry after news." Again, according to Bishop Earle's Microcosmography, published in 1628, ' It is a heap of stones and men, with a vast confusion...the steeple not sanctified, nothing liker Babel. The noise in it is like that of bees, a strange humming or buzz mixed, of walking, tongues, and feet ;... | |
 | William Longman - Church architecture - 1873 - 374 pages
...than this — the whole world's map, which you may here discern in its perfectest motion, jostling and turning. It is a heap of stones and men, with...languages ; and were the steeple not sanctified, nothing likcr Babel. The noise in it is like that of bees, a strange humming or buzz mixed, of walking, tongues,... | |
 | George Phillips Bevan - 1882 - 116 pages
...more than this, the whole world's map, which you may here discern in its perfected motion, jostling and turning. It is a heap of stones and men, with...were the steeple not sanctified, nothing liker Babel. It is the great exchange of all discourse, and no business whatsoever but is here stirring and afoot.... | |
 | Richard Patrick Boyle Davey - 1882 - 296 pages
...than this—it is the whole world's map, which you may here discern in its perfectest motion, jostling and turning. It is a heap of stones and men with a...languages; and were the steeple not sanctified, nothing could be liker Babel. The noise in it is like that of bees, a strange humming, or buzzing, mixed of... | |
 | Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 1883 - 842 pages
...epitome. . . . the whole world's map, which you may here discern in its perfectest motion, jostling and turning. It is a heap of stones and men, with...languages ; and were the steeple not sanctified, nothing were liker Babel. The noise in it is like that of bees, a strange humming or buzzing, mixed of walking,... | |
 | Henry Morley - Characters and characteristics in literature - 1891 - 460 pages
...Britain. It is more than this, the whole world's map, which you may here discern in its perfectest motion, justling and turning. It is a heap of stones...the steeple not sanctified, nothing liker Babel. The noise in it is like that of bees, a strange humming or buzz mixed of walking tongues and feet : it... | |
 | 1925 - 672 pages
...middle aisle was called " Paul's Walk." Bishop Earle, in his " Microcosmography " (1628), calls it " a heap of stones and men, with a vast confusion of languages. The noise in it is like that of bees — a kind of still roar or loud whisper. It is the great exchange... | |
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The noise in it is like that of bees, a strange humming or buzz mixed of walking tongues and feet: it is a kind of still roar or loud whisper. It is the great exchange of all discourse, and no business whatsoever but is here stirring and a-foot. 
