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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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COMMONPLACE, n. A memorandum; a common topic.
COMMONPLACE, v.t. To enter in a commonplace-book, or to reduce to general heads.
Commonplace-book, a book in which are registered such facts, opinions or observations as are deemed worthy of notice or remembrance, so disposed that any one may be easily found. Hence common-place as used as an epithet to denote what is common or often repeated, or trite; as a commonplace observation.
Common;
ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or
observation.
An idea or expression wanting originality
or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.
A memorandum; something to be
frequently consulted or referred to.
Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this
our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of
commonplace. Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered. To enter
in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
Felton. To utter
commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.
[Obs.]
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