Animal symbolism in ecclesiastical architecture (1896)
Evans, E. P. (Edward Payson), 1831-1917 · New York : H. Holt · leaf 159
l affection very strongly developed.It possesses a remarkably benevolent disposition,and is distinguished in a highdegree for the sentiment corre-sponding to philanthropy oraltruism in man, adopting theorphans of other partridges andtreating them with the same ten-derness as its own young; butthere… … In Ecclesiastical Architecture 145 should be condemned to figure the devil in Christiantypology is only an additional proof of the per-versions of hermeneutical theology. Artistic delineations of this supposed charac-teristic in bestiaries, missals, and other books ofdevotion, as well as in sacred…
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