 Numa forbade the Romans to represent the Deity in the form cither of man or beast. Nor was there among them formerly any image or statue of the Divine Being : during the first hundred and seventy years, they built temples, indeed, and other sacred domes,...  Numa Pompilius: Second King of Rome - Page 250by Florian - 1850 - 279 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Plutarch - Classical biography - 1803 - 406 pages
...discernible only by the mind1. Thus Numa forbade the Romans to represent the Deity in the form either of man or beast. Nor was there among them formerly...other sacred domes, but placed in them no figure of anykind 5 persuaded that it was impious to represent things divine by what is perishable, and that... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1809 - 584 pages
...composed' or ' the silent.' bade the Romans to represent the Deity in the form either of man, or of beast. Nor was there among them, formerly, any image...Being: During the first hundred and seventy years indeed they built temples, and other sacred domes, but placed in them no figure of any kind; persuaded,... | |
 | John Brown - Bible - 1811 - 742 pages
...not 1o be comprehended by sense. Nunia forbade the Romans to represent the Doily in the form either of man or beast. Nor was there among them formerly...statue of the Divine Being ; during the first hundred anil seventy years, they built temples, indeed, and other sacred domes ; but placed in them no figure... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1816 - 360 pages
...Jews. (Hist. v. 5,)* forbade the Romans to represent the Deity in the form either of man or of L-east. Nor was there among them, formerly, any image or statue...of the Divine Being : during the first hundred and Eeverry years indeed they built temples, and other sacred domes, but placed in them no figure of any... | |
 | William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pages
...654. 86 87 780. [E.rod xx. 4.] Numa forbad the Romans to repre•wit llie Deity in the form of either man or beast. Nor was there among them formerly any...represent things divine by what is perishable, and that WE «n have no conception of God but by the understanding. LANGHORNE'S Plutarch, vol. ip 173. [Exod. xx.... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1822 - 388 pages
...'composed' or 'the silent.' forbade the Ramans to represent the Deity in the form cither of man or of beast. Nor was there among them, formerly, any image...Being: during the first hundred and seventy years indeed they built temples, and other sacred domes, but placed in them no figure of any kind ; persuaded,... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1832 - 446 pages
...Romans to represent the Deity in the form eiiher of man or beast. Nor was there among them (ormerly any image or statue of the Divine Being: during the first hundred ¡mil seventy years they built temples, indeed, and other sacred domes, but placed in them no figure... | |
 | Leveson Venables Vernon-Harcourt - Bible - 1838 - 560 pages
...a special reference to the deluge. He forbade the Romans to represent the Deity in the form either of man or beast, nor was there among them formerly...image or statue of the Divine Being, during the first 170 years.1 He instituted two sacerdotal orders, who had always high consideration among the Romans,... | |
 | Leveson Venables V. Harcourt - 1838 - 540 pages
...a special reference to the deluge. He forbade the Romans to represent the Deity in the form either of man or beast, nor was there among them formerly...image or statue of the Divine Being, during the first 170 years.1 He instituted two sacerdotal orders, who had always high consideration among the Romans,... | |
 | John Campbell - Eromanga (Vanuatu) - 1842 - 562 pages
...discernible only by the mind. Thus Numa forbad the Romans to represent the Deity in the form either of man or beast. Nor was there among them formerly...indeed, and other sacred domes, but placed in them no figures of any kind, — persuaded that it is impious to represent things divine by what is perishable,... | |
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