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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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PAVE, v.t. [L. pavio; Gr. to beat, to strike.]
The pavement.
||Nymphe du pavé ((?)), a prostitute who solicits in the street. [A low euphemism.] To lay or cover with stone, brick, or
other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for
horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with
brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to
pave a court.
With silver paved, and all divine with gold. Dryden. To pave thy realm, and smooth the broken ways. Gay. Fig.: To make smooth, easy, and safe; to
prepare, as a path or way; as, to pave the way to promotion; to
pave the way for an enterprise.
It might open and pave a prepared way to his own title. Bacon. | ||||||||