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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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1828 Definition
LON'GITUDE, n. [L. longitudo, from longus, long.]
1913 Definition
Length; measure or distance along the longest line; --
distinguished from breadth or thickness; as, the
longitude of a room; rare now, except in a humorous
sense.
Sir H. Wotton.
The longitude of their cloaks. Sir. W. Scott. Mine [shadow] spindling into longitude immense. Cowper. The arc or portion of the
equator intersected between the meridian of a given place and the
meridian of some other place from which longitude is reckoned, as
from Greenwich, England, or sometimes from the capital of a country,
as from Washington or Paris. The longitude of a place is expressed
either in degrees or in time; as, that of New York is 74° or 4 h.
56 min. west of Greenwich.
The distance in degrees,
reckoned from the vernal equinox, on the ecliptic, to a circle at
right angles to the ecliptic passing through the heavenly body whose
longitude is designated; as, the longitude of Capella is
79°.
Geocentric longitude (Astron.), the longitude of a heavenly body as seen from the earth. -- Heliocentric longitude, the longitude of a heavenly body, as seen from the sun's center. -- Longitude stars, certain stars whose position is known, and the data in regard to which are used in observations for finding the longitude, as by lunar distances. | ||||||||
Noah Says...
The principles of genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations, are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man, therefore, who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that Book may be accessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer.
