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Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments (1922)

Matthews, William Henry, 1882- · London, New York, etc. Longmans, Green · leaf 156

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s tirer hors des dangereux foruoyemens desdestroits modains. In other words, the device may betaken as emblematical of the temptation-labyrinth of this 96 worldly life, which can only be safely traversed by meansof the Ariadne thread of divine grace. The design in this case is of a peculiar type,… … Fig. 71.—Labyrinth Device of Archbishop of Embrun. (After C. Paradin.) Church or with ecclesiastics. At the same time we knowthat, in England at any rate, the turf mazes were usedfor sportive purposes in the days of Elizabeth, and thereis, so far, a lack of contemporary reference to their…

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