 | British poets - 1822 - 246 pages
...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 whose top...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... | |
 | 1822 - 554 pages
...brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Ho to, let us build us a city, und a tower whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of (the earth. And the Lord came down to see the city, and the tower, which the children of men builded.... | |
 | 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
...closely observing the stars. ' Let us build us a city and a tower,' said the companions of Noah, ' whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make...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... | |
 | 1835 - 1024 pages
...that, when the descendants of Noah came to a suitable place, they said one to 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,... | |
 | Philadelphia Sunday and Adult School Union - 1822 - 156 pages
...from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar ; and they dwelt there. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heavjen ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the... | |
 | 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
...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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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. 
