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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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PENUM'BRA, n. [L.pene, almost,and umbra,shade.] In astronomy, a partial shade or obscurity on the margin of the perfect shade in an eclipse, or between the perfect shade, where the light is entirely intercepted,and the full light.
An
incomplete or partial shadow.
The shadow cast, in an
eclipse, where the light is partly, but not wholly, cut off by the
intervening body; the space of partial illumination between the umbra,
or perfect shadow, on all sides, and the full light.
Sir I.
Newton.
* The faint shade surrounding the dark central portion of a solar spot is also called the penumbra, and sometimes umbra. The part of a picture where
the shade imperceptibly blends with the light.
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