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Cross of Christ, against which the shafts of ambition and 

 other worldly Lusts fall broken and hurtless. In one plate 



we find the Saviour (still accoutered as before) planting in 

 the human heart the pure lilies so emblematic of his truth, 

 while in another we perceive the same figure holding with 

 tongs, in a fiery furnace, the heart taken from the breast 

 of the humble Christian who stands complacently looking on. 

 We have already seen that some very important works of 

 an Emblematic nature proceeded from the pen of the Jesuits. 

 That religious Order, which for two Centuries exercised such 

 an extensive influence over the civil and ecclesiastical 

 destinies of Nations, soon perceived the advantages and 

 delights of a liberal education, (always however within the 

 pale of Orthodoxy) and sedulously applied themselves to 

 the cultivation of Learning. If the followers of Loyola are 

 not able to boast of many names which stand in the very 

 foremost rank, they certainly may lay claim to several writers 

 who greatly distinguished themselves in the walks of classical 

 learning and general science. From these we might present 

 a rather -extended list of Emblematic Works, forming a 

 distinctive class remarkable for originality as well as for 

 scholastic research. 



The following may serve as specimens: — 

 Erom the pen of John David, a Jesuit of Ghent, proceeded 

 the three works mentioned below, all being of a religious 

 and didactic nature, and illustrated with highly-finished 

 copperplates, in which the extravagant and enthusiastic 

 notions of the Author are presented to the eye by the 

 graphic skill of Theodore Galle. The whole are from the 

 Plantinian press at Antwerp. 



saint, who soon made his appearance. They informed hiro that every sort of medical 

 appliance had been resorted to in vain, and solicited that he would render his aid 

 and coansel. " My friends" — said the saint — " he will soon leave this world — Hia 

 " disorder is past all remedy. His heart is gone out of him, and then," pointing to a 

 large chest on the floor, " there it lies enclosed." The man soon after die<l. The 

 chest was openoil. It was filled with Gold, in the midst of which the roan's heart 

 was discovered. 



