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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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BLEACH, v.t. [Eng. bleak.]
To whiten; to make white or whiter; to take out color; applied to many things, but particularly to cloth and thread. Bleaching is variously performed, but in general by steeping the cloth in lye, or a solution of pot or pearl ashes, and then exposing it to the solar rays.
Bleaching is now generally performed, on the large scale, by means of chlorine or the oxymuriatic acid, which has the property of whitening vegetable substances.
BLEACH, v.i. To grow white in any manner.
To make white, or whiter; to remove the color,
or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten.
The destruction of the coloring matters attached to the
bodies to be bleached is effected either by the action of the air
and light, of chlorine, or of sulphurous acid. Immortal liberty, whose look sublime To grow white or lose
color; to whiten.
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