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Updated: May 31, 2025
The lessons which he receives are simply intended to cleanse the heart and prepare the recipient for that mental illumination which is to be given in the succeeding degrees. As a Fellow Craft, he has advanced another step, and as the degree is emblematic of youth, so it is here that the intellectual education of the candidate begins.
It was not often, indeed, that Trixton Brent was taken off his guard; but some allowance must be made for him, since he was facing a situation unparalleled in his previous experience. Virtue had not often been so triumphant, and never so dramatic as to produce at the critical instant so emblematic a defender as this matronly lady in dove colour.
At the celebration of his golden wedding, three years ago, more than a hundred and forty of his descendants and relations assembled at his house. On that joyful occasion, the Commodore presented to his wife a beautiful little golden steamboat, with musical works instead of an engine, emblematic at once of his business career and the harmony of his home.
"Hang these bells!" he exclaimed, starting up and gazing round him in despair. Then he fell back on his pillow in despair, and went to sleep in despair. Once more he dreamed. He was going to church now, dressed in a suit of the finest broadcloth, with Minnie on his arm, clothed in pure white, emblematic, it struck him, of her pure gentle spirit.
'Anything's emblematic if you're on the look-out for emblems.
Now a polished gourd filled with native beer was handed to Nodwengo, the second son of the king, and one by one the great councillors approached, and, with appropriate words, let fall into it offerings emblematic of fertility and increase.
Nor was it unoccupied by lovers; for two pretty doves birds emblematic of the tender passion sat side by side upon the bough of a tulip-tree, their bronzed throats swelling at intervals with soft amorous notes. Oh, how I envied those little creatures! How I should have rejoiced in a destiny like theirs!
A native of Bergamo, learned in heraldry, provided him with a coat of arms, representing, on a field gules, a lion, embracing three cubs, emblematic of the Tepelenian dynasty.
First came two thousand robbers, sentenced to be hung up by their heels, emblematic of their wish to turn every thing, upside down so to remain until they were pecked to death by the crows, or torn to pieces by the vultures. The banner of innovation. One of the robber chiefs, ordered to be choked with an abacus, which was suspended round his neck. Another of the robber chiefs.
First came two thousand robbers, sentenced to be hung up by their heels, emblematic of their wish to turn everything upside down so to remain until they were pecked to death by the crows, or torn to pieces by the vultures. The banner of innovation. One of the robber chiefs, ordered to be choked with an abacus, which was suspended round his neck. Another of the robber chiefs.
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