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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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RUNE, n. [See Runic.] The runic letter or character.
A letter,
or character, belonging to the written language of the ancient
Norsemen, or Scandinavians] in a wider sense, applied to the letters
of the ancient nations of Northern Europe in general.
* The Norsemen had a peculiar alphabet, consisting of sixteen letters, or characters, called runes, the origin of which is lost in the remotest antiquity. The signification of the word rune (mystery) seems to allude to the fact that originally only a few were acquainted with the use of these marks, and that they were mostly applied to secret tricks, witchcrafts and enchantments. But the runes were also used in communication by writing. Old Norse poetry expressed in
runes.
Runes were upon his tongue, Rune stone, a stone bearing a runic inscription. | ||||||||