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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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CANTON, n.
A song or
canto
[Obs.]
Write loyal cantons of contemned love. A small portion; a division; a
compartment.
That little canton of land called the
"English pale" There is another piece of Holbein's, . . . in
which, in six several cantons, the several parts of our
Savior's passion are represented. A small community or clan.
A small territorial district; esp. one
of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal
republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See
Arrondissement.
A division of a shield
occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter
side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield,
meeting a horizontal line from the side.
The king gave us the arms of England to be borne
in a canton in our arms. To divide into small parts or districts] to mark off or
separate, as a distinct portion or division.
They canton out themselves a little Goshen
in the intellectual world. To allot separate
quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or
body of troops.
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