Our country's flag and the flags of foreign countries (1898)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York : D. Appleton and company · leaf 106
g. 27) ; butafter it was onceadopted by theChurch as a sym-bol, it stood forChristianity as thecrescent stood forthe power of theSaracens. The Crusadeswere wars of thecross against thecrescent, just asthe wars in Eng-land (a. d. 1455-71) between thehouses of York (whose emblem was a whiterose) and… … Fig. 27.—A Grecian banner. Froma mural painting. 500 B. c. No-tice that the banner bears thesymbol of the cross. 76 THE FLAGS OF FOREIGN NATIONS. ners for the ideas shadowed forth in thesymbols. Flags that represent national and socialideals are emblems almost as significant asthe symbols of…
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