A Dictionary of Burning Words

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2 quotations from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

Let the oracles of inspiration be cited continually, both as authority and illustration, in a manner that shall make the mind instantly refer each expression that is introduced to the venerable book whence it is taken; but let our part of religious language be simply ours, and let those oracles retain their characteristic form of expression unimitated, unparodied to the end of time.— filed under Bible
Polished steel will not shine in the dark. No more can reason, however refined or cultivated, shine efficaciously but as it reflects the light of Divine truth shed from heaven.— filed under Reason
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