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. Lectures on Painting - Seite 60von James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli - 1848 - 567 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| John Murray - 1831 - 324 Seiten
...found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there — and they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick and burn them thoroughly. And they...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... | |
| 1832 - 438 Seiten
...own safety by the impracticable plan recorded in their history. For they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick and burn them thoroughly, and they...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... | |
| Mary Martha Sherwood - 1834 - 466 Seiten
...they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly : and...brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make... | |
| George Thomas Keppel (6th earl of Albemarle.) - 1834 - 370 Seiten
...baked in a furnace mentioned by Herodotus, as well as to the account given us in the Scriptures,* " Let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they...brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar."-}- On many were inscribed those unknown characters resembling arrow-heads, so remarkable in the ruins... | |
| Thomas Paine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau - 1834 - 408 Seiten
...Shinar, and they dwelt there. — And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick and sburn 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 ua make... | |
| 1835 - 428 Seiten
...they had advanced somewhat in the arts of civilization ; " And they said one to another ; ' Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly ;' and...had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar." Fourthly, a national spirit seems to have arisen, with a wish to consolidate society; "Go to, let us... | |
| Thomas Harttree Cornish - 1836 - 538 Seiten
...2. OF THE CONFUSION OF LANGUAGES. [Year of the World, 1757-1 " AND they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they...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... | |
| Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1836 - 188 Seiten
...the land of Shinar ; and they dwelt there. And they said to each other, Go to, let us make bricks, 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 tower, the top of which may reach unto heaven ; and... | |
| Edward Shaw - 1836 - 438 Seiten
...invention.' According to Moses, the tower of Babel was built of bricks : Go to, let us make BRICKS, and burn them thoroughly ; and they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar — Gen. ch. xi. v. 3. Pliny informs us that in the most remote ages of the Egyptians, they made use... | |
| 1836 - 544 Seiten
...name has a striking resemblance to the Shinar of the Bible." .\Vi buhr Reiaebschreib. B. II. s. 388. them thoroughly.* And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.f And they said, Go to, let us build a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ;... | |
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