| British poets - 1822 - 268 páginas
...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 may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the... | |
| Philadelphia Sunday and Adult School Union - 1822 - 156 páginas
...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... | |
| 1823 - 594 páginas
...were, said, " with our tongues will we prevail; our lips are our own ; who is Lord over us."—" Let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach to heaven :" that is, a very high tower, Deut. i. 28.—=-" And let us make us a name, lest," &c. The object... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1824 - 420 páginas
...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... | |
| Isaac Taylor - 1825 - 384 páginas
...men journeyed eastward, they found the plains of Shinaar fertile and convenient ; and they said, " Go to, let Us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach to heaven. They had brick for stone, which they burnt thoroughly, and slime (that is bitumen) had they for mortar."... | |
| Joseph Hall - 1825 - 714 páginas
...in sinning, by how much we are more prone to evil than good. It was a proud word — " Come, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven." They were newly come down from the hills unto the plains, and now think of raising up of an hill of... | |
| James Hervey - 1825 - 424 páginas
...tongues. In this structure there were doubtless very strong traces of that arrogant boast, — ' Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven,' Gen. xi. 4. t Alluding to that prodigious instance of profuseness, ostentation, and idolatrous madness,... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1825 - 462 páginas
...This is agreeable to the account, which the builders of Babel give of their design. " 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," or as it may be rendered, a mark or sign, " lest... | |
| Thomas Wetherald - 1826 - 360 páginas
...this. The children of Noah increased and spread abroad upon the face of the earth, " 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... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 298 páginas
...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 may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the... | |
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