 Care should be taken not to transform, dissolve, and scatter the Divine Nature into rivers, winds, vegetables, or bodily forms and motions. This would be as ridiculous as to imagine that the sails, the cables, the rigging, and the anchor, are the pilot;...  Nueva ciropedia - Page 81by Andrew Michael Ramsay - 1799Full view - About this book
 | Andrew Michael Ramsay - 1779 - 310 pages
...transform , diflblve and fcatter the Divine » Nature inr& rivers , winds , vegetables , or bodily n forms and motions. This would be as ridiculous » as to imagine , that the fails , the cables , the r> rigging and the anchor are the pilot ; or that the » tread , the woof... | |
 | Ramsay (Chevalier, Andrew Michael) - 1802 - 482 pages
...(i) Orig. contre Celse, lir. I. p. il. divine t divine nature into rivers , winds , vegeta» bles , or bodily forms and motions. This » would be as ridiculous...rigging and the » anchor are the pilot ; or that the thread, the » woof , and shuttle are the weaver. Such » senseless notions are an indignity to the... | |
 | Ramsay (Chevalier, Andrew Michael) - 1814 - 416 pages
...the various productions of the Deity." Plutarch had said a little before, " That care should betaken not to transform, dissolve and scatter the divine...rigging and the anchor are the pilot; or that the thread, the woof and shuttle, are the weaver. Snch senseless notions are an indignity to the heavenly... | |
 | Ramsay (Chevalier, Andrew Michael) - 1814 - 414 pages
...the various productions of the Deity." Plutarch had said a little before, " That care should betaken not to transform, dissolve and scatter the divine...ridiculous as to imagine, that the sails, the cables, the riscing and the anchor are the pilot; or that the thread, the woof and shuttle, are the weaver. Such... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 662 pages
...shall only add to these passages the following quotation from the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch. " Care should be taken not to transform, dissolve, and scatter...rigging, and the anchor, are the pilot ; or that the thread, the shuttle, and the woof, are the weaver. Such senseless notions are an indignity to the heavenly... | |
 | William Watson English - 1865 - 190 pages
...there is truth in the passage quoted by Mr. Stewart from the Isia and Osiris of Plutarch — ' Care should be taken not to transform, dissolve, and scatter...rigging, and the anchor are the pilot, or that the thread, the shuttle, and the woof are the weaver. Such senseless notions are an indignity to the heavenly... | |
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