 | Andrew Michael Ramsay - 1779 - 310 lehte
...juft medium between thefe" two extremes. Plutarch in his treatife ofJ/wand Oßris,te\]s us (a). » That the Theology of the Egyptians had two » meanings ; the one holy and fymbolical ; the other »vulgar and literal; and confequently that the figu>» res of animals which... | |
 | Andrew Michael Ramsay - 1799 - 490 lehte
...his treatise of Isis « tint, de laid. 8c Osir. pgg 354. and Osiris', tells us, „that the theo logy of the Egyptians had two meanings ; the one holy and...and 'which they seemed to adore , were ,only so many hieroglyphicks to represent the divine attributes." Pursuant to his distinction , he ,says , that Osiris... | |
 | Ramsay (Chevalier, Andrew Michael) - 1814 - 416 lehte
...the just medium between these two extremes. Plutarch, in his treatise of Isis and Osiris, tells us,* that the theology of the Egyptians had two meanings...signifies the active principle, or the most holy Being ;*!• Isis the wisdom or rule of his operation ; Orus the first production of his power, the model... | |
 | Ramsay (Chevalier, Andrew Michael) - 1814 - 414 lehte
...the just medium between the>se two extremes. Plutarch, in his treatise of Isis and Osiris, tells us,* that the theology of the Egyptians had two meanings...adore, were only so many hieroglyphics to represent thu divine attributes. Pursuant to this distinction, he says that Osiris signifies the active principle,... | |
 | T. Dalton - 1852 - 158 lehte
...reported to have said, in his treatise of Isis and Osris, will apply to the subject generally — " The theology of the Egyptians had two meanings, the...symbolical, the other vulgar and literal, and consequently the figures of animals which they had in their temples, and which they seemed to adore, were only so... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1855 - 476 lehte
...theology had two meanings ; the one holy and symbolical, the other vulgar and literal ; consequently, the figures of animals, which they had in their temples,...hieroglyphics, to represent the divine attributes." Damascius, a Platonic philosopher of the fifth century, says : " The Egyptian philosophers of our time... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1855 - 516 lehte
...of that First God, who is the Lord of all things, to be discerned only by the mind. Their theology had two meanings ; the one holy and symbolical, the other vulgar and literal ; consequently, the figures of animals, which they had in their temples, and which they seemed to adore,... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1855 - 480 lehte
...of that First God, who is the Lord of all things, to be discerned only by the mind. Their theology had two meanings ; the one holy and symbolical, the other vulgar and literal ; consequently, the figures of animals, which they had in their temples, and which they seemed to adore,... | |
 | De Robigne Mortimer Bennett - 1880 - 980 lehte
...of that first God, who is the Lord of all things, to be discerned only by the mind. Their theology had two meanings, the one holy and symbolical, the other vulgar and literal ; consequently the figures of animals, which they had in their temples, and which they seemed to adore,... | |
 | Edward Madeley, Edward Madeley (Jr.) - 1883 - 768 lehte
..."<]• " Plutarch, in his treatise of Isis and Osiris, tells us (Plut. tie Lrid and Osir., p. 354), that the theology of the Egyptians had two meanings...animals which they had in their temples, and which they seem to adore, were only so many hieroglyphics to represent the Divine attributes. Pursuant to this... | |
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Osiris, tells us,* that the theology of the Egyptians had two meanings ; the one holy and symbolical, the other vulgar and literal ; and consequently that the figures of animals which they had in their temples, and which they seemed to adore, were only... 