A Dictionary of Burning Words

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Quotes by Thomas, Earl of Kinnoul

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

I have always considered the atonement to be characteristic of the gospel, as a system of religion. Strip it of that doctrine, and you reduce it to a scheme of morality, excellent indeed, and such as the world never before saw; but to man in the present state of his faculties, absolutely impracticable.— filed under Christ's Sufferings and Death
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