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Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850 by Various
page 31 of 70 (44%)

M.

Oxford.

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With regard to the symbols of the four Evangelists, "JARLZBERG" may
consult a Sermon by Boys on the portion of Scripture appointed for the
Epistle for Trinity-Sunday. (_Works_, p. 355. Lond. 1622.)

R.G.

[To these Replies we will only add a reference to Mrs.
Jameson's interesting and beautiful volume on _Sacred and
Legendary Art_, vol. i. p. 98., _et seq._, and the following
Latin quatrain:--

"Quatuor hæc Dominum signant animalia Christum,
Est _Homo_ nascendo, _Vitulus_que sacer moriendo,
Et _Leo_ surgendo, coelos _Aquila_ que petendo;
Nec minus hos scribas animalia et ipsa figurant."]

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COMPLEXION.

_Complexion_ is usually (and I think universally) employed to express
the _tint of the skin_; and the hair and eyes are spoken of separately
when the occasion demands a specific reference to them. "NEMO"
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