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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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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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DISTAFF, n.
1913 Definition
The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which
the thread is drawn in spinning by hand.
I will the distaff hold; come thou and spin. Fairfax. Used as a symbol of the holder of a
distaff; hence, a woman; women, collectively.
His crown usurped, a distaff on the throne. Dryden. Some say the crozier, some say the distaff was too busy. Howell. * The plural is regular, but Distaves occurs in Beaumont *** Fletcher. Descent by distaff, descent on the mother's side. -- Distaff Day, or Distaff's Day, the morrow of the Epiphany, that is, January 7, because working at the distaff was then resumed, after the Christmas festival] -- called also Rock Day, a distaff being called a rock. Shipley. | ||||||||
Noah Says...
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws....All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
History of the United States :: 1832
