 | William Pinnock - Readers (Elementary) - 1822 - 252 pages
...that is called in scripture, the " Tower of Babel." 22. And they said one to another, " Go to, let us make brick and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar ; and began to build the tower, which is thought to have been an idol temple. 23. And here the Lord... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1822 - 326 pages
...dwelt there. And they said one to another, ' Go to, let us make bricks, and burn them thoronghly : 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1894 - 602 pages
...Chaldean plain : ' 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). In the absence of stone the Chaldean architects were obliged to design a style of architecture... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Rationalism - 1824 - 420 pages
...found a plain in the landofShinar and they dwelt there. — And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick 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 whose top may reach unto heaven, and... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1825 - 462 pages
...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 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 the heaven, and... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Sir William Chambers, Joseph Gwilt - Architecture - 1825 - 378 pages
...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 used at a remote period among the Egyptians. Exod. i. 14. v. 7. CED.] It... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 480 pages
...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 mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build a city and a tower whose top (may reach) unto heaven, and let us... | |
 | Thomas Wetherald - Sermons, American - 1826 - 360 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
