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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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BE'SOM, n. s as z. A broom; a brush of twigs for sweeping.
BE'SOM, v.t. To sweep, as with a besom.
Rolls back all Greece,and besoms wide the plain.
A brush of twigs for sweeping;
a broom; anything which sweeps away or destroys.
[Archaic or
Fig.]
I will sweep it with the besom of destruction. The housemaid with her besom. To sweep, as with a besom.
[Archaic or
Poetic] Cowper.
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