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On Symbols And Symbolism,
guns or locks , so exactly alike in all their parts that when they are afterwards taken to pieces by the eldermen of the guild or Ami , ancl the pieces blended or thrown together indiscriminately , the aspirant to the mastership is to connect them so as again to form two equally perfect guns or locks as before . This process isexactly expressed bthe above Greek words
, y aw fiaWetv , casting together ; ancl the two new objects are two perfect sijmbola in the literal and most recondite meaning of the word , the one exactly representing the other . As , however , in nature and eyery-day life no two objects are found the perfect antitypes or fellows one of the other , approximations are takenthe nearest the party using them can imagine
, or discover , and the nearer or the more remote the reality is depictured by the symbol , the readier will be its reception and recognition by the multitude or the contrary . Under the general denomination of Symbols , may be classed as subordinate diiisions the folloiying .-
—1 . TYPES . 2 . EMBLEMS AND DEVICES . 3 . SIGNS , MARKS , AND TOKENS . 1 . Type is properly form or mark , from a Greek root signifying literally to beat , and thence , deductively , an impression made by beating or punching at a matrix ; also the stamps Avhich such matrices offer
, whence printers call their metal letters types , though formed by casting in steel moulds : and thence , also figuratively , any picture becomes a type , and even any imaginative or figurative description may be adduced as a type . Its use in a biblical or sacred sense is most general , though perhaps there it would be better designated by the compound archetype or prototype .
2 . Emblems and Devices differ in this , that the former are properly always coupled with some general moral apothegm , whilst the device is merely personal , and mostly refers only to some individual , frequently but as the rebus of the name of its wearer or inventor . An examine will best illustrate the difference . We have whole books in which the author has taxed his ingenuity to to different ictorial
join p images suitable moral or significant mottoes , by Quarles and others , and in three ponderous folios , published at Prague , by Typotius , under the title " Symbola Rom . Pontificum , Imperatorum Regum , Principum , & c . & c . " through every range of dignitaries . The devices of our kings are examples of the latter kind , but have been mostly misunderstood by our commentators on regal heraldry , Dallaway ancl Willement , because they could not condescend to the puerilities
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Symbols And Symbolism,
guns or locks , so exactly alike in all their parts that when they are afterwards taken to pieces by the eldermen of the guild or Ami , ancl the pieces blended or thrown together indiscriminately , the aspirant to the mastership is to connect them so as again to form two equally perfect guns or locks as before . This process isexactly expressed bthe above Greek words
, y aw fiaWetv , casting together ; ancl the two new objects are two perfect sijmbola in the literal and most recondite meaning of the word , the one exactly representing the other . As , however , in nature and eyery-day life no two objects are found the perfect antitypes or fellows one of the other , approximations are takenthe nearest the party using them can imagine
, or discover , and the nearer or the more remote the reality is depictured by the symbol , the readier will be its reception and recognition by the multitude or the contrary . Under the general denomination of Symbols , may be classed as subordinate diiisions the folloiying .-
—1 . TYPES . 2 . EMBLEMS AND DEVICES . 3 . SIGNS , MARKS , AND TOKENS . 1 . Type is properly form or mark , from a Greek root signifying literally to beat , and thence , deductively , an impression made by beating or punching at a matrix ; also the stamps Avhich such matrices offer
, whence printers call their metal letters types , though formed by casting in steel moulds : and thence , also figuratively , any picture becomes a type , and even any imaginative or figurative description may be adduced as a type . Its use in a biblical or sacred sense is most general , though perhaps there it would be better designated by the compound archetype or prototype .
2 . Emblems and Devices differ in this , that the former are properly always coupled with some general moral apothegm , whilst the device is merely personal , and mostly refers only to some individual , frequently but as the rebus of the name of its wearer or inventor . An examine will best illustrate the difference . We have whole books in which the author has taxed his ingenuity to to different ictorial
join p images suitable moral or significant mottoes , by Quarles and others , and in three ponderous folios , published at Prague , by Typotius , under the title " Symbola Rom . Pontificum , Imperatorum Regum , Principum , & c . & c . " through every range of dignitaries . The devices of our kings are examples of the latter kind , but have been mostly misunderstood by our commentators on regal heraldry , Dallaway ancl Willement , because they could not condescend to the puerilities