“The nurse of infidelity is sensuality. Youth are sensual. The Bible stands in their way. It prohibits the indulgence of the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 348.

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British Evangelical Anglican priest and social reformer 1748–1810

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