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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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HI'EROGLYPH
A sacred character; a character in picture
writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in
the plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It
is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters:
first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the
representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself;
second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing
ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich feather is a symbol of truth; third,
the phonetic, consisting of symbols employed as syllables of a
word, or as letters of the alphabet, having a certain sound, as a
hawk represented the vowel a.
Any character or figure which has, or is
supposed to have, a hidden or mysterious significance; hence, any
unintelligible or illegible character or mark.
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