This tree in its early growth may symbolise the upspringing of natural religion.
The death of the serpent may possibly be intended tosymbolise the end of time.
In German legends, Strawberries symbolise little children who have died when young.
Thunbergius, both standing upright: the former is supposed to be of the female and the latter of the male sex, and both symbolise a robust age that has withstood the storms and trials of life.
The white petalssymbolise the purity and brightness of Our Lord, and His white robe.
Representatively they had to mediate between God and Israel, and typically to symbolise the "holiness," i.
To illustrate and emphasise his jubilant prophecies he had made and affixed to his head a pair of iron horns; and as though to symbolise the bull of the House of Ephraim, he said to Ahab, "Thus saith Jehovah.
The practice may symbolise the fertilising influence of rain.
In some localities divorce and also polygamy are said to be forbidden, and in such cases a woman who commits adultery is finally expelled from the caste, and a funeral feast is given to symbolise her death.
Others substitute for the pestles a pack-saddle with two bags of grain in order to symbolisetheir camp life.
The first represents a serpent, coiled so as to symbolise the male triad, and the crescent, the emblem of the yoni.
There is some difficulty in understanding the exact idea intended to be conveyed by these; my own opinion is that they symbolise Satan, the old serpent that tempted Eve, viz.
Hence, while it is quite true that fire often typifies the wrath of God punishing sin, it is certain that it cannot always symbolise this, not even in the sacrificial ritual.
Beauty was, at highest, too ennobling to be wholly false; it must at leastsymbolise the true.
Both the letter on the page and the notes on the stave are symbols of the second degree--symbols of symbols--for what theysymbolise is in itself the symbol of the artist's intuition of a unity in multiplicity.
Symmetry and rhythm are beautiful because they symbolise reason and divinity, and relate the human soul, through the perception of order, to the divine which created that order.
Such an imitation would be specially significant in what was intended to symbolise the transitoriness of the Chaldean conquest.
The explanation usually given by Malays is that the betel-nut scissorssymbolise iron.
Such sanctuaries would symbolise to sinners in after-times the possibility of forgiveness; they were monuments of God's mercy as well as of the founders' penitence.
Indeed, the consequences of sin are regular and exact; and the judgments upon the kings of Judah in Chronicles accurately symbolise the operations of Divine discipline.
Hence the name of Solomon came to symbolise Hebrew learning and philosophy.
They symbolise something precise and unmistakable; but this precision is itself attenuation of the something symbolised.
Moses and Elijah frequently stand on either side to symbolise the transfiguration, while the saints and bishops specially connected with the church appeared upon a lower row.
The lifted torch would symbolise his new life, and the depressed torch would stand for the life he had devoted.
They are all attired in Roman fashion, and are turned seaward, to the west, as if to symbolise the emigration of this family to subdue Europe.
Does not the ground plan of such a church symbolise minutely the then state of church discipline and the {lviii} conditions of church worship?
That is to say, our modern church arrangement may suit and does symbolise the present state of the Church with us, but does not suit and does not symbolise the state of the missionary Church of India.
This may serve as a specimen of the manner in which the expressions of one art may be translated into that of another, because they each and all symbolise the same abstraction.
A wave of enthusiasm went up on both sides of the Irish Sea for the alliance which seemed to symbolise the ending of the age-long struggle between the two nations.
We now come upon a new relation (contained in the dimensions of the pyramid as thus determined) which, by a strange coincidence, causes the height of the pyramid to appear to symbolise the distance of the sun.
Seeing that the perimeter of the base symbolises the annual motion of the earth round the sun, while the height represents the radius of a circle with that perimeter, it follows that the height should symbolise the sun's distance.
Of course this reason is not quoted in order to throw doubt on the supposition that the height of the pyramid was intended to symbolise the sun's distance.
The face and attitude of that unseductive Venus, wide awake and melancholy, opposite her snoring lover, seems to symbolise the indignities which women may have to endure from insolent and sottish boys with only youth to recommend them.
His designs of wings to fly with symbolisehis whole endeavour.
Madonna has the small head and heroic torso used by this master to symbolise force.
The triple circle surrounding the Throne may be intended to symbolise the Trinity.
This church, indeed, was not meant to symbolise Heaven, but corresponds to the churches on the mystical islands of the Irish Imrama.
He would have nothing to do with the attempt to symbolise and revive a civilisation that had utterly passed away, nor with the deliberate neglect of the modern world, and its most intense and living art--Music.
Von Bohlen says the ancient Peruvians marked with blood the doors of the temples, royal residences, and private dwellings, tosymbolise the triumph of the sun over the winter.
The shadows of night descending over the lake--as the company took their departure from its shores--might well symbolise the shadow that had fallen upon her heart.
You seem to me to symbolise all the grace and charm that perished on the Place de Greve.
He did not know what it was about her that seemed to symbolise all that is forever young and fresh and imperishable.
The wall showed no further trace of damp, and the new chauffeur's bent back seemed to symbolise an extreme conscientiousness.
It would not be surprising that among a cattle-breeding people in early days the bull, regarded as a type of strength and reproductive energy, should be employed tosymbolise and represent more than one of the great powers of nature.
On a stepped base, not very different from that in the cave but much larger, sat a figure, draped in a cloak on which was graved a number of stars, doubtless to symbolise the heavens.
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