412 HISTORY OF CERTAIN 
common, as ‘‘ Domboe,” the title of the survey of 
the kingdom, or statute-book of the Anglo-Saxon 
kings. ‘“‘ Kingdom,” the jurisdiction of a king, 
the country over which a king judged, literally 
the judgment of a king. “ Wisdom,” compounded 
from our last root and the present. The judg- 
ment of the senses; the verdict of the ‘ wits.” 
This word, we, who are wiser than our forefathers, 
abuse very much. We call learned persons, per- 
sons of great information, &c., men of wisdom— 
but in so doing, we pervert the meaning of the 
word, for a learned man, and a man well-informed, 
may possess very little wisdom. A wise man is 
he, who, whether learned or unlearned, makes a 
proper use of the senses which God has given 
him, and forms his judgment from the knowledge 
and experience which he derives from them. 
“Freedom,” free judgment, unbiassed from the 
authority of another. It is a stronger term than 
liberty, which merely signifies a state opposite to 
that of slavery: whereas, freedom does the same, 
and allows a man to judge for himself, places him 
on the level with a king, who has only a ‘“ dom” 
like himself, though it may extend to territory 
and to subjects, while his is solely confined to 
the mind. ‘“Thraldom,” the exact reverse of 
freedom, a state doomed to perpetual thral. The 
