Word: lights
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Purgatory, and has finally departed from him in the Earthly Paradise. There Revelation meets him, in the person of Beatrice, and conducts him through the seven heavens to the throne of God. The picture of Hell was one of darkness and horror; that of Purgatory was one of light, color, and hope; and that of Heaven is one of light, glory...
...souls of those whose perfect virtue has been injured by the mingling of divine and sensual love in their hearts. Thus Dante and Beatrice rise through the seven degrees of blessedness, and Dante talked with the joyful spirits, and increased in wisdom. Still led by the wonderful reflected light in the eyes of Beatrice, Dante ascends among the fixed stars. Here his eyes are cleared, and he looks back at the earth, which seems so mean and little, and smiles. Above him is the living light of Christ so bright that even his eyes can not endure...
...Lloyd Garrison delivered a lecture in Sever 11, last night, on "The Duty of Total Abstinence and the Popular Fallacies Concerning Light Drinks." Dean Briggs introduced Mr. Garrison...
There is nothing which so inflames all the passions of a man as light drinks. The heriditary effects of beer, for instance, are known to be much more vicious than those of distilled liquors. Beer has a degenerating influence on the whole system, and beer drunkenness is the most degrading of all; it multiplies all forms of diseases and crimes. An idea has got abroad that drunkenness does not exist in wine producing countries. This is not true. The Germans, in spite of the popular notion that they are only beer drinkers, drink more heavy drink than any other people...
Harvard Total Abstinence League. The Duty of Total Abstinence and the popular Fallacies concerning Light Drinks. Mr. Wm. Lloyd Garrison. Sever...