| 1835 - 428 pages
...for mortar." Fourthly, a national spirit seems to have arisen, with a wish to consolidate society; "Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven : " is not this a graphic manner of representing the great and gradual work of... | |
| Richard Westall, John Martin - 1835 - 204 pages
...plains, while man became vain of his power and arrogant in his imagined supremacy. " 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... | |
| Charles Girdlestone - 1836 - 398 pages
...glory, our labour is but lost. This was the case with those who attempted to build Babel, saying, " Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name." (Gen. 1 1. 4.) If we would not have our labour... | |
| Adam Clarke - 1836 - 938 pages
...'burn them througlily. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, °the sons of Simeon; Pjemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, an may reach unto J Heb. a man »aid to his neighbour. ' Heb. burn them to a burning. ' Deut. i. 28. necessity... | |
| Thomas Harttree Cornish - 1836 - 538 pages
...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 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... | |
| 1837 - 538 pages
...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 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... | |
| Henry Duncan - 1837 - 426 pages
...Scripture, the intentions of the builders are, in our translation, rendered in these words, " And they said, go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach into heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we. be scattered abroad, upon the face of the... | |
| Joseph Hall - 1837 - 600 pages
...building; and a cleaving pitchy slime, which that soil yieldeth, instead of mortar. XI. 4. 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... | |
| Nathan Covington Brooks - 1837 - 220 pages
...empires fall — when sceptres rustAnd kings and diadems are dust. THE TOWER OF BABEL. And they gaid Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose too may , each unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of... | |
| William Thistlethwaite - 1837 - 982 pages
...them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach to heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."... | |
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