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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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LI'KING, ppr. of like.
LI'KING, n.
Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See
Like, to look.
[Obs.] Chaucer.
Why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort ? Dan. i. 10. The
state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking,
below.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.] The state of being pleased with, or
attracted toward, some thing or person; hence, inclination; desire;
pleasure; preference; -- often with for, formerly with
to; as, it is an amusement I have no liking
for.
If the human intellect hath once taken a liking to any doctrine, . . . it draws everything else into harmony with that doctrine, and to its support. Bacon. Appearance; look; figure; state of body as
to health or condition.
[Archaic]
I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of men's liking. Shak. Their young ones are in good liking. Job. xxxix. 4. On liking, on condition of being pleasing to or suiting; also, on condition of being pleased with; as, to hold a place of service on liking; to engage a servant on liking. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line . . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance ? Hazlitt. | ||||||||