Word: heavenly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fullest existence is the subject of the Divine Comedy. Visions of the life to come had long been popular. The novelty of Dante's work lay in the knowledge of the unity of the life on earth and the life after death. Heaven with Dante was not a place of arbitrary reward, nor Hell a place of arbitrary punishment. They were self-determined conditions of the soul of man. He extended the realm of nature into the unseen universe. The Divine Comedy was not intended merely to alarm the sinner by the picture of Hell's horrors, nor to confirm...
April 12. - The Divine Comedy: Heaven...
...Abbott took as his text the words of Christ: "Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." The disciples of Jesus had expected that their master would found a kingdom on earth and they came to him to decide which of them should have the highest place. Christ rebuked them in the words of the text, meaning that their expectations must be wholly given up and that to inherit eternal life their spirits must be born again...
...picture and never exhibiting again. He afterwards became reconciled with Sir Joshua Reynolds and began a portrait of him, which was never finished. Four years later, when Gainsborough felt that his end was near, he sent for Sir Joshua. His last words were, "We are all going to heaven, and VanDyck is of the party...
...football experts are like the primitive races of man. You recollect how Sir Henry Maine says that all early codes were marked by an inflexible rigidity, because their rules were thought to have come down from Heaven itself. To most football players the suggestion of a radical change in the game seems about as impious as to ask a Priest of Menu to say his prayers without washing his feet...