Word: symbolizing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...summit of Purgatory is the "earthly Paradise" where the voluntary pilgrim receives the mitre, symbolic of self-mastery, and the crown, the symbol of freedom of his soul. The pilgrim then bathes in the river Lethe and forgets all that is evil--symbolic of the forgiveness of sins. With renewed soul and spirit he is now, ready for Heaven and for the love and presence...
...statues which will decorate this space, is a huge bronze lion, the gift of His Highness, Johann Albrecht, the Prince-Regent of Brunswick. This monument stood formerly in front of Brunswick Castle, where it was placed in 1166 by Duke Henry, the Lion of Saxony, as a symbol of his territorial sovereignty...
...Harvard men. From that on J. G. Brooks's life of W. H. Baldwin, Jr., I should like to quote these words: "This is a noble memorial of one of the finest Americans of the younger generation. To accomplish what Baldwin accomplished; to have deserved to stand as a symbol of what is best in our civic and business life; to die at 42, mourned by thousands, and respected by the leaders of the nation; and to have his life story told by so sympathetic a biographer as Mr. Brooks, was a lot which the most ambitious might entry...
...Parker's mind the duty of a lawyer is not to his client at the expense of the courts or of justice, of which the courts are but the visible symbol; but he must at all times have in view the rights of his case, its effect on others, and the precedent which a decision inevitably establishes. The temptation of a man just entering the field of law is to accept the first opportunity presented, but he has no right to "win a position by the payment of a price which he will ever afterwards regret...