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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: But in yet another poem from the same source we may find a passage that, by way of conclusion, may serve to bring us round nearer to our starting-point: '' My heart is a storm-beaten ark, wildly hurl'd O'er the whirlpools of time, with the wrecks of a world. The dove from my bosom hath flown far away: It is flowjj, and returns not, though many a day Have I watch'd from the windows of life for its coming. Friend, I sigh for repose, I am weary of roaming. I know not what Ararat rises for me, Far away, o'er the waves of the wandering sea. THE TOWER OF BABEL. Genesis xi. i?9. A RCHBISHOP WHATELY is the alleged author of a J. Latin tractate, anonymously published in 1849, which freely recognizes as very considerable the difficulties under which this short narrative labours. He asks how the precaution against being scattered abroad was to be secured by building a very high tower; and again how the purpose of it was to be frustrated by a confusion of tongues; and why it was necessary that they should all be dispersed through far-apart regions? His notion of the matter, upon the whole, seems to be that some leading men had determined to found a world-wide empire, with a temple, dedicated to some idol, for world-wide worship; and that since it was not in their power, as dwellers on a plain, to erect that building on a mountain, (as one of the high places afterwards so notorious in holy writ, ) they resolved on building a very lofty tower, a sort of artificial mountain. Whereupon their counsels were baffled by divine interposition, which moved the founders to discord, causing them to quarrel about religious worship?and thus much more effectively vitiating their attempt than by a diversity of tongues. Thus it came to pass at Babel, that the strongest of the factions ke...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217553513
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 134
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217553516
  • Publisher Date: 05 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 254 gr


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