A Dictionary of Burning Words

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Quotes by Richard Hurd

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

In this awfully stupendous manner, at which Reason stands aghast, and Faith herself is half confounded, was the grace of God to man at length manifested,— filed under Christ's Sufferings and Death
No boy is well prepared for rough climbing, unless he is well shod with Christian principles. Every stage of life has its own set of manners, that is suited to it, and best becomes it. Each is beautiful in its season; and you might as well quarrel with the child's rattle, and advance him directly to the boy's top and span-farthing, as expect from diffident youth the manly confidence of riper age.— filed under Youth
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