Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Governor Wolcott, Mr. F. L. Higginson, Mr. T. J. Coolidge, Mr. T. J. Coolidge, Jr., Hon. S. Lincoln, Dr. H. P. Walcott, Hon. Sherman Hoar, Professors Fay of Tufts, Van Dael of M. I. T., Gettis of Boston University, Dow of Dartmouth, Vismaut of Wellesley, Eckstadt of Mt. Holyoke, Angel of Bates, Duval of Smith, Barrett Wendell, M. H. Morgan, and J. W. White of Harvard; Mr. H. C. Smith of New York, Mr. R. Upton, Mr. J. H. Hyde, Mr. R. C. Leh mann, and Canon and Mrs. Cheyne of Oxford, England...
...Divine Comedy. On the third day the poets pass the gate of Purgatory, and find before them three stairways, the first of polished marble; the second rougher and dark in color, and the third of flaming red. At the top of the third flight of steps stood the Angel of the Lord with a great sword in his hands. Dante falls before this Angel weeping and praying that he be allowed to pass, since he repents of his sins. The Angel bids him arise, and he makes with his sword seven wounds upon the brow of Dante, and then...
...this scene Dante means to show that for the sacrament of Penitence two elements are necessary, the sinner, and the priest. Dante himself is the sinner and the angel the priest. Further he represents the three essential requisites of full repentence; contrition, confession and satisfaction to God; by the three flights of steps. The seven wounds carved on the forehead of Dante represent the seven deadly sins...
...spoken of in Genesis, although some regard the serpent in the Garden of Eden as a symbol of the devil. The first mention of Satan is made in Job, which, it is claimed, was written at the time of the captivity. In this book Satan is still an angel and has not yet become a tempter. The next mention of him is in Zechariah; and in Chronicles the idea of him is complete. The introduction of the idea of a devil made the grand ruler more exalted. After that all evil deeds were represented as the work of the devil...
...through intercourse with man and nature which leads to self-sufficingness, self-sustainment and equilibrium of character. It was the individual that should and could be leavened, and through the individual the lump. To reverse the process was to break the continuity of history and to wrestle with the angel of destiny...