 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.  Publications - Page 1681836Full view - About this book
 | British poets - 1822 - 246 pages
...of empire ; 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 earth'." What was the beginning of Rome, the metropolis of all the world ? What was it, but a concourse... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1894 - 602 pages
...Let us build us a city and a tower,' said the companions of Noah, ' 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.' Herodotus, who lived only a short time after the Great Temple of Babylon was, according... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 268 pages
...of empire ; 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 earth '." What was the beginning of Rome, the metropolis of all the world ? What was it, but a... | |
 | 1835 - 1024 pages
...another, " Go to, let va build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let as make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." In forming this purpose, it is by no means certain that they were influenced by a... | |
 | Whitlock Nicol - 1823 - 356 pages
...Babylon °. And the people said, " 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 P." And " the Lord confounded their language, and scattered them abroad from thence... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1824 - 420 pages
...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 whole earth. — And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded. — And the Lord... | |
 | Voltaire - 1824 - 446 pages
...families and people, should all find themselves in the plain of Shinaar, to build there a tower, saying, " Let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. "f The book of Genesis speaks of the states which the sons of Noah founded. It has... | |
 | Voltaire - 1843 - 1304 pages
...families, and people, should all find themselves in the plain of Shinaar, K> build there a tower, saying, " Let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." The book of Genesis speaks of the tales which the sons of Noah founded. It hai related... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1825 - 462 pages
...mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto the heaven, and let us make us 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 builded. And the Lord said,... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 598 pages
...in the page of inspiration : " 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."11 These words clearly shew, that their object in building the tower was, to transmit... | |
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