 | Plutarch - Greece - 1831 - 356 pages
...figure of any kind ; persuaded that it is impious to represent things divine by what is perishable, and that we can have no conception of God but by the understanding. His sacrifices, too, resembled the Pythagorean worship : for they were without any effusion... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1832 - 444 pages
...figure of any kind, persuaded that it is impious to represent things divine by what is perishable, and that we can have no conception of God but by the understanding. His sacrifices, too, resembled the Pythagorean worship; for they were without any effusion... | |
 | Plutarch - 2009 - 354 pages
...figure of any kind, persuaded that it is impious to represent things divine by what is perishable, and that we can have no conception of God but by the understanding. His sacrifices, too, resembled the Pythagorean worship; for they were without any effusion... | |
 | Plutarch - 1834 - 544 pages
...figure of any kind, persuaded that it is impious to represent things divine by what is perishable, and that we can have no conception of God but by the understanding. His sacrifices, too, resembled the Pythagorean worship; for they were without any effusion... | |
 | Rev. George William David Evans - Art, Italian - 1835 - 408 pages
...figure of any kind ; persuaded that it is impious to represent things divine by what is perishable, and that we can have no conception of God but by the understanding." — LangJiorne's Plutarch. t Prenae capitis subjugari praecepimus, quos simulacra colere... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1840 - 472 pages
...figure of any kind, persuaded that it is impious to represent things divine by what is perishable, and that we can have no conception of God but by the understanding. His sacrifices, too, resembled the Pythagorean worship; for they were without any effusion... | |
 | John Campbell - Eromanga (Vanuatu) - 1842 - 512 pages
...figure of any kind, — persuaded that it is impious to represent things divine by what is perishable, and that we can have no conception of God but by the understanding." This great experiment is fraught with much instruction. It shows us religion in its... | |
 | Religion - 1843 - 1056 pages
...figure of any kind, persuaded that it is impious to represent things divine by what is perishable, and that we can have no conception of God but by the understanding. His sacrifices too resembled the Pythagorean worship ; for they were without any effusion... | |
 | Theology - 1843 - 520 pages
...figure of any kind, persuaded that it is impious to represent things divine by what is perishable, and that we can have no conception of God but by the understanding. His sacrifices too resembled the Pythagorean worship ; for they were without any effusion... | |
 | Mary Ann Dwight - Mythology, Classical - 1849 - 516 pages
...figure of any kind, persuaded that it is impious to represent things divine, by what is perishable, and that we can have no conception of God, but by the understanding. His sacrifices, too, resembled the Pythagorean worship ; for they were without any effusion... | |
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During the first hundred and seventy years they built temples, indeed, and other sacred domes, but placed in them no figure of any kind, persuaded that it is impious to represent things divine by what is perishable, and that we can have no conception... 
