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===Metaphorical===
===Metaphorical===
:It is not with them we are concerned: they will not be taught or reformed; so, they will go down the steep and slipperly slope on which the heartless move, to perdition!
:It is not with them we are concerned: they will not be taught or reformed; so, they will go down the steep and slipperly slope on which the heartless move, to perdition!
::—Bernard O'Reilly, 1883<ref>O'Reilly, Bernard ("Rev. Bernard O'Reilly, L.D.") (1883) ''The Mirror of True Womanhood, A Book of Instruction for Women in the World,'' 2nd Edition, Dublin, M. H. Gill and Son, "Reprinted from the Thirteenth American Edition." [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0tteeqHbx_PA4OUD&id=RZcDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=%22steep+and+slippery+slope%22&as_brr=1&ie=ISO-8859-1 p. 136]</ref>
::—Bernard O'Reilly, 1878<ref>O'Reilly, Bernard ("Rev. Bernard O'Reilly, L.D.") (1883) ''The Mirror of True Womanhood, A Book of Instruction for Women in the World,'' 2nd Edition, Dublin, M. H. Gill and Son, "Reprinted from the Thirteenth American Edition." [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0tteeqHbx_PA4OUD&id=RZcDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=%22steep+and+slippery+slope%22&as_brr=1&ie=ISO-8859-1 p. 136]. The Thirteenth American Edition was published in 1878 by Peter F. Collier, New York.</ref>
:Is there one among us who is tempting a brother man to dishonesty, to drink, to lust; who is pushing some thoughtless girl down the steep and slippery slope which ends--we know where? Then let him stop and listen, not to me, but to Christ.
:Is there one among us who is tempting a brother man to dishonesty, to drink, to lust; who is pushing some thoughtless girl down the steep and slippery slope which ends--we know where? Then let him stop and listen, not to me, but to Christ.