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«Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.»
«Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory / the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
Allegories, allegory, comprehended, pygmies, Pygmy
«A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory - and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life - a life like the scriptures- figurative»
«Shakespeare led a life of allegory; his works are the comments on it.»
«Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
Allegories, allegory, like so, well-chosen
«The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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Church,
Credulity,
Miracles
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Allegories, allegory, credulity, decreasing, drapery, translator, translators
«Allegories drawn to great length will always break»
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