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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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ISLAND, n. i'land. [This is an absurd compound of isle and land, that is, land-in-water land, or ieland-land. There is no such legitimate word in English, and it is found only in books. The genuine word always used in discourse is our native word, Sax.ealong, D.G. eiland.]
A tract of land surrounded by water, and
smaller than a continent. Cf. Continent.
Anything regarded as resembling an island;
as, an island of ice.
See Isle,
Islands of the blessed (Myth.), islands supposed to lie in the Western Ocean, where the favorites of the gods are conveyed at death, and dwell in everlasting joy. To cause to become or to resemble an island; to make an island
or islands of; to isle.
Shelley. To furnish with an island or with islands;
as, to island the deep.
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