“Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.”

—  Richard Cecil (clergyman)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 471.

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British Evangelical Anglican priest and social reformer 1748–1810

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