 | Baptists - 1850 - 664 pages
...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...the head of a man ; of strength, than the body of the lion; of rapidity of motion, than the wings of the bird. These winged, human-headed lions were... | |
 | United States - 1849 - 602 pages
...people into the temple of their gods ? What more sublime images could have been borrowed from nature, bv men who sought, unaided by the light of revealed religion,...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... | |
 | Theology - 1851 - 620 pages
...intent and history. What more noble forms cculd have ushered the people into the Temple of their Gods 1 What more sublime images could have been borrowed...type of 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... | |
 | 1848 - 592 pages
...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...better type of intellect and knowledge than the head of the man ; of strength than the body of the lion ; of rapidity of motion, than the wings of the bird.... | |
 | Sir Austen Henry Layard - Assyria - 1849 - 468 pages
...over their intent and history. What more noble forms could have ushered the p 3 people into the temple of their gods ? What more sublime images could have...better type of intellect and knowledge than the head of the man ; of strength, than the body of the lion ; of ubiquity, than the wings of the bird. These winged... | |
 | John Cumming - Providence and government of God - 1849 - 190 pages
...muse over their intent and history. What more noble form could have ushered the people into the temple of their gods ! What more sublime images could have...better type of intellect and knowledge than the head of the man — of strength than the body of the lion — of rapidity of motion than the wings of the bird.... | |
 | Mary Fawler Maude - 1849 - 498 pages
...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...better type of intellect and knowledge than the head of the man ; of strength, than the body of the lion ; of rapidity of motion, than the wings of the bird.... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 638 pages
...and history. \V hat more noble forms could have ushered the people into the temple of their godsī What more sublime images could have been borrowed...better type of intellect and knowledge than the head of the man ; of strength, than the body of the lion ; of rapidity of motion, than the wings of the bird.... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - Assyria - 1849 - 400 pages
...their gods ? What more sublime images could have been borrowed » * Entrance of chamber B, plan 3. from nature, by men who sought, unaided by the light...better type of intellect and knowledge than the head of the man; of strength, than the- body of the lion; of rapidity of motion, than the wings of the bird.... | |
 | Samuel Dunn - 1852 - 1074 pages
...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,...the head of a man ; of strength, than the body of the lion ; of rapidity of motion, than the wing of the bird. These winged human-headed lions were not... | |
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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... 
