 | Richard Payne Knight - 1865 - 458 str.
...ceremonies performed in theworfhipof Priapus; which appeared not only contrary to the gravity and fanctity of religion, but fubverfive of the firft principles...underftood in their direct and obvious fenfe ; but are to beconfideredas fymbolical reprefentations of fome hidden meaning, which may be extremely wife and juft,... | |
 | Albert Réville - 1866 - 134 str.
...some Account of the SYMBOM employed and their connection with the MYSTIC THEOLOGY of* the Ancients. * The forms and ceremonials of a religion are not always to be understood in their direct and obvious sense, but are to be considered as symbolical representations... | |
 | Edgar Charles Beall - 1905 - 292 str.
...principles of decency and good order in society. Even the form itself, under which the god was represented, appeared to them a mockery of all piety and devotion,...placed in a brothel than a temple. But the forms and ceremonies of a religion are not always to be understood in their direct and obvious sense; but are... | |
 | Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson - 2000 - 596 str.
...principles of decency and good order in society. Even the form itself, under which the god was represented, appeared to them a mockery of all piety and devotion, and more fit to he placed in a hrothel than a temple. But the forms and ceremonials of a religion are not always to... | |
 | Randolph Trumbach - 1998 - 536 str.
...philosophical system of religion," and, with a sly dig at Christian sacramentalism, he pointed out that "the forms and ceremonials of a religion are not always to be understood in their direct and obvious sense; but are . . . symbolical representations of some hidden... | |
 | Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson - 1972 - 598 str.
...principles of decency and good order in society. Even the form itself, under which the god was represented, appeared to them a mockery of all piety and devotion,...and ceremonials of a religion are not always to be understood in their direct and obvious sense; but are to be considered as symbolical representations... | |
 | Hargrave Jennings - 2007 - 117 str.
...principles of decency and good order in society. Even the form itself, under which the god was represented, appeared to them a mockery of all piety and devotion,...forms and ceremonials of a religion are not always to b© understood in their direct and obvious sense ; but are to be considered as symbolical representations... | |
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But the forms and ceremonials of a religion are not always to be understood in their direct and obvious sense ; but are to be considered as symbolical representations of some hidden meaning... 