 | George Thomas Keppel (6th earl of Albemarle.) - 1834 - 370 pages
...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... | |
 | Bible - 1834 - 274 pages
...all flesh that is upon the earth. The Confusion of Tongues and Dispersion of Mankind. GEN. xi. 1...9. and they dwelt there. 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 morter. And they said, Go to, let us... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1834 - 1038 pages
...likelihood, the HEBBKW — and qf one speech; articulating CHAP. XI. AM cm. 1757. BC cm. 2247. • ivileges, whatever was most dear, most valuable, CHAP. XII. AM 2513. BC 1491. live t 3 IT And b they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and c burn them thoroughly. And they... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 594 pages
...Herodotus, and not to feel convinced that they relate to the same site. ' They found a plain in the laud of Shinar, and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make bricks, and burn them throughly. And they had biick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.'* ' Babylon,'... | |
 | Jeremiah N. Reynolds - Potomac (Frigate) - 1835 - 616 pages
...Here a striking analogy is obvious between the tradition and that passage in Genesis which says — " And the whole earth was of one language and of one...that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there." Here they attempted to " build a tower, whose top should reach to heaven," which impious... | |
 | Jeremiah N. Reynolds - Potomac (Frigate) - 1835 - 600 pages
...Here a striking analogy is obvious between the tradition and that passage in Genesis which says — " And the whole earth was of one language and of one...from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shmar, and dwelt there." Here they attempted to " build a tower, whose top should reach to heaven,"... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1829 - 664 pages
...full and satisfactory explanation of this whole matter. There, we read, " That the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to...east that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, &c." (to the 9th v. of the xi. chap. Gen.) Critics, it is true, have differed in their interpretation... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - Bible - 1835 - 326 pages
...from Shem, Ham, and Japheth, were the nations divided in the earth after the flood," he . observes, " And the whole earth was of one language and of one...as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plam in Shinar." What is meant by this, if it be understood not to imply, that " the whole earth''... | |
 | India, South - 1835 - 332 pages
...him HARETI ARARAT. Th« strong scriptural argument, adduced by Dr. Shuckford , from Gen. xi. 1. — "And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east,...plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there," remains undamaged, if not incontrovertible. It appears so to us; and, also, that it is strengthened... | |
 | Theology - 1835 - 428 pages
...Secondly, there is an emigration from the East into the country between the Tigris and Euphrates; " And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the East, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar." Thirdly, they had advanced somewhat in the arts of civilization ; " And they said one to another ;... | |
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And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech : and it came to pass, as they journeyed from the East, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar ; and they dwelt there. 
