 | Edward Wells - 1820 - 432 pages
...is plainly enough told us by Moses, where he tells us, that they thus encouraged one another: Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth, Gen. xi. 4. Now to make one's self a name, is a Scripture expression for to make ones... | |
 | Levy Alexander, David Levi - 1821 - 316 pages
...dwelt there. ' '3 1Í 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 for...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5 f And the LORD came do\vn to see the city and the tower which the children of men... | |
 | 1821 - 134 pages
...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 a...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city, and the tower which the children of men buildcd.... | |
 | Alexander Jamleson - 1821 - 456 pages
...thoroughly. And they made brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, one to another, 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." Mr. Rich, a recent traveller, has favoured the world, with a very interesting description... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1822 - 326 pages
...make bricks, and burn them thoronghly : and they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 'And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 246 pages
...to 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 concourse... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 268 pages
...to 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... | |
 | Whitlock Nicol - 1823 - 356 pages
...of Shinar ", in which spot afterward stood the famous city Babylon °. And the people said, " Let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth P." And " the Lord confounded their language, and scattered them abroad from thence... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1824 - 420 pages
...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...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. — And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 598 pages
...indulge in conjectures, when the true reason is clearly stated in the page of inspiration : " Let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."11 These words clearly shew, that their object in building the tower was, to transmit... | |
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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. 
