 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 630 pages
...the account, given by the sacred historian of the builders of Babel. Let us make brick (said they), and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. ¡Gnu. xi. 3.) The name of Babylon was mystically given to Rome by the Apostle Peter, as we have shown... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - Building - 1825 - 342 pages
...segments of circles. The Greek echinus and * " And they said to one another, Go to, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar." — Genesis, chap. xi. ver. 3. The Greek and Roman Orders. cyma reversa, are also for the most part... | |
 | Sir William Chambers, Joseph Gwilt - Architecture - 1825 - 378 pages
...followed timber as a material for enclosures. These indeed were employed in building the tower of Babel. " And they said one to another, go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar." Gen. xi. 3. Brick was much... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 598 pages
...admission of some of its defenders, ..is founded on these I words of Moses: " As they went from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there." k If then they came from the east, as the text plainly says, they might come from those parts of Asia... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1825 - 462 pages
...region was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass in the journeying of the people from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar." The people, then, who journeyed from the east, were not all the people of the earth, but only the posterity... | |
 | Thomas Wetherald - Sermons, American - 1826 - 360 pages
...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." " And they said one to another, let us make brick and burn them thoroughly. And they...had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar." These materials were wholly the result of human invention. They went on with their work, depending... | |
 | 1826 - 1036 pages
...whole earth wa» f\ of one language, and o< one speech. g- 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed , praise him ; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him ; and fear him, all ye the see 3 And they said one to another. Go to, let us make brick, and bum them thoroughly. And they had brick... | |
 | George Townsend - Bible - 1826 - 902 pages
...Bryant supposes, to have been merely the confu2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed *from the cast, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar ; and they dwelt there. «on of d'6 ''P> or a change of pronunciation only. After this second dispersion, the Cuthim or Hammonians,... | |
 | James Wright - 1827 - 146 pages
...Geography.) This, however, has not hindered some from carrying the ark aa far as mount Caucasus before plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there....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... | |
 | Francis Sellon White - Industrial arts - 1827 - 608 pages
...being expressed by a few syllables. BRICKS are first noticed in the building of the Tower of Babel, " and they said one to another, go to, let us make brick...them thoroughly, and they had brick for stone, and lime had they for mortar." Gen. xi. v. 3. The making of bricks was also one of the oppressions to which... | |
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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. 
