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A superb night a starry sky Jupiter and Phoebe holding converse before my windows. Grandiose effects of light and shade over the courtyard. A sonata rose from the black gulf of shadow like a repentant prayer wafted from purgatory. The picturesque was lost in poetry, and admiration in feeling. July 30, 1877. ... makes a very true remark about Renan, a propos of the volume of "Les Evangiles."
"I have heard it said that you were the one to blame in the matter, and that you feared the dangers of a pregnancy," said the chevalier. "I!" she said artlessly. "I would buy a child with a hundred years of purgatory if I could."
An anonymous letter is the bastard of a diseased mind. An envious woman is a spark from Purgatory. The consciousness that we have anything to hide from the world stretches a veil between our souls and heaven. We cannot reach up to meet the gaze of God, when we are afraid to meet the eyes of men.
When people serve the kingdom of heaven with a pass-book in their hands, I should always be afraid lest they should carry the same commercial spirit into their dealings with their fellow-men, which would make a sad and sordid business of this life. There is one more article, however, of happier import. "All these indulgences," it appeared, "are applicable to souls in purgatory."
He knew full well that the priests rendered services, great services to the poorest, to the sick and dying, that they assisted, consoled, counselled, sustained, but all this by means of money, in exchange for white pieces, for beautiful glittering coins, with which they paid for sacraments and masses, advice and protection, pardon of sins and indulgences, purgatory and paradise according to the yearly income and the generosity of the sinner.
"Of the Penitent Soldier, his going into this Purgatory, and of the Messengers sent from God unto him. "There was a certain Soldier called Owen, who had for many years served in King Stephen's Army. Being then interiorly moved to repentance, he went to a certain Bishop in that country, and Confess'd all his Sins unto him.
At the conclusion of this felicitous period Satan is to be loosed for a little season, and after he has pawed up the gravel with his long toe-nails and given us a preliminary touch of Purgatory, we are to have the genuine pyrotechnics. Some of the divines did not agree with the spectacular ceremonies arranged by Dr.
The superabundant merits of the saints are a treasury for use by the whole Church, and are distributed by the head of the Church, that is, the Pope. Furthermore, to St. Thomas is due the idea that the contents of this treasury were equally available for the benefit of souls in purgatory, for whom the Church was already accustomed to make intercession.
Their only consolation was that she had a considerable fortune the fruit of her professional work. In all relevant particulars this strange venture had proved a huge success. To leave the fever of the stage for the quiet life of the village had been to Mrs. Abel like the escape of a soul from the flames of purgatory. She had rightly discerned that the Rev.
Dante's characters, in his view of Purgatory, are drawn with accurate reference to the principles of physiognomy; and Shakspeare and Sterne, particularly the latter, were clever in the art; while Kempf and Zimmermann, in their profession, are said seldom to have erred as physiognomists.
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