A Dictionary of Burning Words

Six hundred pages of the sharpest lines from 'the literature of all ages,' filed by subject — built for orators, preachers and anyone who needs the perfect quotation.

About the Book

1895Published
Josiah H. GilbertAuthor
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Josiah H. Gilbert's Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) collects thousands of quotations 'from the literature of all ages,' arranged alphabetically by subject — Ability to Zeal — 'for the use of the Senate, the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Orator.'

Every entry is attributed, which makes the book a wonderful browse: Chateaubriand next to church fathers, poets next to politicians, all filed under the feeling they best expressed.

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