| 1828 - 722 pages
...they dwelt there. And they said one to another, * Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And ' they had brick for stone, and slime§ had they...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... | |
| 1803 - 430 pages
...superb and magnificent building. " And they said, go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly ; and they had brick for stone, and slime had they for...to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven;" to what point in the heaven they intended to go it is not said ; if to the... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 290 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
| 1809 - 1150 pages
...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 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... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1811 - 396 pages
...another, Go to, let us make brick , and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and shrae had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men... | |
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