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The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 11 (of 12)

Note 22 — CHARLEMAGNE: OU L’ÉGLISE DÉLIVRÉE.

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The personification of the Deity is another instance of critical contradiction and conceit. Objecting to the figures of Raphael and Michael Angelo as mythological and sensible, he introduces a little golden triangle behind a cloud (triangulum in nube) as a philosophical emblem of the Trinity!

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