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Floral emblems (1825)

Phillips, Henry, 1775-1838 · London, Saunders and Otley · leaf 55

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xpress my pride is humbled, or 26 INTRODUCTION. your pride is checked, by holding itdownwards either to the left or the right, asthe sense requires. In the same manner the wallflower, whichis made the emblem of fidelity in misfortune,if presented with the stalk upwards, wouldinsinuate that the… … jh^ JsMJnd^^ Hn^m KLOHAL l;iVlHLl:i\I.S. 27 LEAFLET NUMBERS. The numerical emblems are simply distin-guished by the leaflets as far as eleven. Fromeleven to twenty they are denoted by berriesadded to leaf ten, as in the examples 12 and14. Twenty to a hundred is represented byjoining a compound leaf…

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