| 1828 - 722 Seiten
...make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And ' they had brick for stone, and slime§ had they for mortar. And ' they said, Go to, let us build us a city and...may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name,' &c. Genesis, xi. 1 — 4, But there is nothing to be found in the Bible which enables us to fix upon... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 290 Seiten
...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... | |
| Jacob Bryant - 1807 - 492 Seiten
...cause. The people concerned in this daring undertaking encouraged each other to this work, by saying, 85 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. What is in our version a name, is by many interpreted a monument, a 86 mark, a; o«... | |
| Jacob Bryant - 1807 - 494 Seiten
...brick, and burn them thoroughly : and they had brick for stone ; and slime had they for mortar. 4. And they said ; Go to ; let us build us a city and...whose top may reach unto heaven : and let us make us a mark or signal, that tee may not be scattered abroad upon the surface of every region. 5. And the Lord... | |
| Jacob Bryant - 1807 - 502 Seiten
...brick, and burn them thoroughly : and they had brick for stone ; and slime had they for mortar. 4. And they said; Go to; let us build us a city and a...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 Lord... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 Seiten
...afford, for building; and a cleaving pitchy slime, which that soil vieldeth, instead of mortar. XI. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. Then Nimrod, as their ringleader, and the rest of his followers, said thus in consultation... | |
| 1808 - 524 Seiten
...top of which shall be up to heaven ; and let us make a name for ourselves before 5 we be scattered on the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came -down...the city and the tower which the children € of men were building. And the Lord said, Behold they are all of one race and one lip. And this they have begun... | |
| 1808 - 530 Seiten
...top of which shall be up to heaven ; and let us make a name for ourselves before 5 we be scattered on the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children 6 of men were building. And the Lord said, Behold they are all - of one race and one lip. And this... | |
| 1809 - 1150 Seiten
...make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 come old by reason of the very long journey. 14 die face of the whole earth. 5 And the LOBD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 286 Seiten
...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... | |
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