A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 422
on and right use of symbols andemblems. A symbol is a picture, sign, orcharacter by which something other than thatportrayed is suggested to the mind; and itmay signify a person, a fact, a virtue, a mys-701 SYMBOLOGY tcry, a spiritual idea, or it may be manifoldin its meaning and stand for all of… … SWITZEKLAND, APCHITECTURE OF: ToWN HaLL OF Zurich ; c. 1700. virtue, Hope;, of a mystery. The Passion;and it is the Standard of Salvation, and thus.symbolizes a spiritual idea. An Emblem, inChristian .symbology, is a device or objectbelonging to some particular person, and isemployed to distinguish…
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