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• Lenglet du Fresnoy says it is very allegorical, and utterly incomprehensible. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• An Italian fresco-painter, Mr. Brimidi, was more obedient to orders and willing to answer the roll-calls, so he was permitted to cover the interior walls of the new Capitol with his work--allegorical, historical, diabolical, and mythological President Pierce was the most popular man personally that ever occupied the Presidential chair. —  Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
• These ceremonies were allegorical: the palm was an emblem of hypocrisy, the myrtle pointed to good works, the willow represented the wicked, and the citron the righteous. —  The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
• He did not adhere to this resolution after his preferment to a prebend at Toledo in 1653, though he confined himself as much as possible to the composition of autos sacramentales_--allegorical pieces in which the mystery of the Eucharist was illustrated dramatically, and which were performed with great pomp on the feast of Corpus Christi and during the weeks immediately ensuing. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• The ceremonies were all allegorical, some of which, according to the Emperor Julian, could be explained, but more remained covered with the veil of mystery. —  Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

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