embleming

Updated: May 13, 2025

Everlasting Justice, yet with Penitence, with everlasting Pity, all Christianism, as Dante and the Middle Ages had it, is emblemed here. Emblemed: and yet, as I urged the other day, with what entire truth of purpose; how unconscious of any embleming!

Thomas Carlyle - On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History