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- noun the worship of symbols
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Chaldean wastes led to the contemplation of the stars; and illustrations of the Zodiac, in elucidation of the mysteries of symbol-worship; fantastic vagaries of earth fresh from the Deluge, tending to impress on early superstition the awful sense of the rude powers of Nature; views of the rocky defiles of Laconia, -- Sparta, neighbored by the "silent
The Caxtons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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