 | William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 744 pages
...proposed in building this lofty tower, when the reason is 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." (Gen. 1 1 . 4.) " Such a notion," says Mr. Ainsworth, the most recent traveller in... | |
 | 1841 - 214 pages
...Babylonia. While there, they consulted together, to build a very lofty tower. " Go to," said they, " 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. The plan was put into execution, the tower was reaching towards heaven,... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - 138 pages
...Then, to the wodde, will he, to morrow night, Pursue her: and for this intelligence, CHAPTER IX. " Let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." 'fig ayadov £(rr CTrovufAiaf TroXXaj ex c ' v TF the authority of any living writer... | |
 | George Paxton - 1842 - 586 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.'* These words clearly show, that their object in building the tower was to transmit... | |
 | William Shakespeare, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1842 - 562 pages
...: But herein meane I to enrich my paine, To haue his sight thither, and back againe." CHAPTER IX. " Let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." 'ttf ayaiov EOT' eimniv/uas nobba; e%etv. TF the authority of any living writer could... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1843 - 314 pages
...all flesh, that is upon the earth. LESSON IV. THE CONFUSION OF TONGUES OR LANGUAGES. [Gen. xi. 1.] 1. AND the whole earth was of one language, and of one...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 2. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men... | |
 | Protestant association - 1843 - 480 pages
...drawn. The sons of men having attained to some skill in building, resolved to make themselves a name. They said, — " Go to ; let us build us a city and...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." How very like is the character of these men of old to the character of men of modern... | |
 | Voltaire - 1843 - 682 pages
...lamilies,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 f.iceof the whole earth." The book of Genesis speaks of the stales which the sons of JNoah founded.... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1844 - 372 pages
...Babylonia. While there, they consulted together, to build a very lofty tower. " Go to," said they, " 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. The plan was put into execution, the tower was reaching towards heaven,... | |
 | John Russell Hurd - 1844 - 860 pages
...the system represented by the figurative Babylon : " Come," said they, " let us build a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the earth," (Gen. xi. 4-6.) Their design was that of perpetuating their own name ; — their only end... | |
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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. 
