 | 1850 - 664 páginas
...more sublime images could have been borrowed from nature by men who sought, unaided by the light of revealed religion, to embody their conception of the wisdom, power, and ubiquity of the Supreme Being? They could find no better type of intellect and knowledge than the head of a man... | |
 | 1849 - 602 páginas
...more sublime images could have been borrowed from nature, bv men who sought, unaided by the light of revealed religion, to embody their conception of the...could find no better type of intellect and knowledge tb«n the head of the man; of strength, than the body of the lion : of rapidity of motion, thnn the... | |
 | 1851 - 620 páginas
...more sublime images could have been borrowed from Nature, by men who sought, unaided by the light of Revealed Religion, to embody their conception of the...intellect and knowledge, than the head of the man ; cf strength, than the body of the lion ; of ubiquity, than the wings of the bird. The winged human-beaded... | |
 | 1853 - 730 páginas
...been borrowed from nature by men, who sought, unaided by the light of revealed religion, to borrow their conception of the wisdom, power, and ubiquity of a Supreme Being ? They could find no betler type of intellect and knowledge than the head of the man ; of strength than the body of the... | |
 | Mary Fawler Maude - 1849 - 498 páginas
...more sublime images could have been borrowed from nature, by men who sought, unaided by the light of revealed religion, to embody their conception of the...of rapidity of motion, than the wings of the bird. Through the portals which these winged humanheaded lions guarded, kings, priests and warriors had borne... | |
 | Sir Austen Henry Layard - 1849 - 468 páginas
...more sublime images could have been borrowed from nature, by men who sought, unaided by the light of revealed religion, to embody their conception of the...man ; of strength, than the body of the lion ; of ubiquity, than the wings of the bird. These winged humanheaded lions were not idle creations, the offspring... | |
 | 1849 - 620 páginas
...from nature by men who sought, unaided by the light of revealed religion, to embody their conceptions of the wisdom, power, and ubiquity of a supreme being?...body of the lion; of rapidity of motion, than the wing of the bird. These winged human-headed lions were not idle creations, the offspring of mere fancy,... | |
 | Samuel Dunn - 1852 - 1074 páginas
...been borrowed from Nature by men, who sought, unaided by the light of revealed religion, to borrow their conception of the wisdom, power, and ubiquity,...better type of intellect and knowledge than the head of a man ; of strength, than the body of the lion ; of rapidity of motion, than the wing of the bird.... | |
 | 1849 - 596 páginas
...more sublime images could have been borrowed from nature, by n'en who sought, unaided by the light of revealed religion, to embody their conception of the...could find no better type of intellect and knowledge thnn the head of the man; of strength, than the body of the lion : of rapidity of motion, thnn the... | |
 | 1849 - 472 páginas
...been borrowed from nature by men who sought, unaided by the light of revealed religion, to embody the conception of the wisdom, power, and ubiquity of a supreme Being ! ... They had awed and instructed nations which nourished three thousand years ago. . . . Before these wonderful... | |
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I used to contemplate for hours these mysterious emblems, and muse over their intent and history. What more noble forms could have ushered the people into the temple of their gods? What more sublime images could have been borrowed from nature by men who... 
