The New Cratylus: Or, Contributions Towards a More Accurate Knowledge of the Greek Language

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J.W. Parker, 1859 - 739 páginas
 

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Página 65 - And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded; and the Lord said, "Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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