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...that says “I can speak of Shakespeare.” A Puritan, he patronizes incoming Puritans more than most, helping them infest this town, making it a sawtoot... ...t have gotten sick: I should have stayed in London to the end, fought the Puritans, fought the King, the tax collectors, the players of the shrew’s ... ...shed by edict and plague, protected from jail by contract, cheered by the Puritans! We worried over money, badgered, confronted, schemed. We placate... ... SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 467 I have had more visitors, five Stratford puritans, who attacked my play writ- ing. I got very angry yet tried to con...

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...First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association (First Speech) at the Church of the Puritans, New York City on May 9, 1867. Published in the New York Tribute, 10 May 1867: 8. Truth's Speech has also been called, "Keeping the Thing Going While Things Are Stirring"....

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...rkers down the ages. 'The parapet' also fits, for there were few that spoke out too loudly on controversial subjects. Clearly, they associated with Puritans or church reformists but they are not among the verbal few. You cannot say for certain if they were royalists or parliamentarians, while the civil war rages they kept their head down producing and selling the gra...

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... settlement. The In- dians were seen as evil and devil-worshippers by many Puritans. There was also at this time a new doctrine in international law, ...

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...ng their parents’ blessing was prob- ably first brought into disuse by the Puritans. Is it possible to imagine a perversity of prejudice more unreason... ...e Church of England or the Church of Rome. But, because the bigotry of the Puritans was exces- sive and revolting, is that a reason for fastening upon... ...t there is any positive evidence, or presumption even, for imputing to the Puritans a dislike to the custom in question: but, because he thinks it a g... ...ood custom, his infer- ence is that nobody could have abolished it but the Puritans. Now who does not see that, if this had been amongst the usages di... ...s not see that, if this had been amongst the usages discountenanced by the Puritans, it would on that account have been the more pertinaciously mainta... ... been evident to the learned editor in any case but one which regarded the Puritans: they were at any rate to be molested: in default of any graver ma... ...g was effected; fanciful or real, the grievance must be connected with the Puritans: here lies the offence, there lies the Puri- tans: it would be ver... ...- sumes the connection. He leaves the reader with an impres- sion that the Puritans are chargeable with a serious wound to the manners of the nation i...

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...the Edict of Nantes had not made France literally uninhabitable. The English Puritans left England only to gain greater liberty for the independent de...

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...ry ticket now take fifty francs to put into the savings bank. And the smug Puritans who amuse themselves in France with phil- anthropic experiments fa... ... of the woman who cost his mother so many tears. Victorin Hulot was to the puritans of political life what a pious woman is among bigots. Beauvisage, ...

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...st. I am no Puritan myself, and fancy that, had I lived in the days of the Puritans, I should have been anti-Puritan to the full extent of my capabili... ...ng back, can now refuse to admire the political aspirations of the English Puritans, or decline to acknowledge the beauty and fitness of what they did... ...er, an exception in history which may perhaps serve to prove the rule. The Puritans who colonized New England were frontier men, and were, I think, in...

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...ith him. She still had her high moral sense, inherited from generations of Puritans. It was now a religious instinct, and she was almost a fanatic wit...

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...father of his country. His life was saved by his daughter Pochahantas. The Puritans found an insane asylum in the wilds of America. The Stamp Act was ...

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...ssing on a righteous cause, which would have marked a band of the original Puritans, when threatened by some peril of the wilderness. Indeed, it was n... ...union of church and state, and all those abominations which had driven the Puritans to the wilderness. Another guard of soldiers, in double rank, brou... ...example to the subject. I have heard, that whenever the descendants of the Puritans are to show the spirit of their sires, the old man appears again. ... ...ioting in the flow of tipsy jollity that foreran the change. But a band of Puritans, who watched the scene, in- visible themselves, compared the masqu... ...an those Maypole worshippers. Not far from Merry Mount was a settlement of Puritans, most dismal wretches, who said their prayers before daylight, and... ...ing-post, which might be termed the Puritan Maypole. A party of these grim Puritans, toiling through the diffi- cult woods, each with a horseload of i... ...cast the sunshine, which was to be perpetual there. On the other hand, the Puritans affirmed that, when a psalm was pealing from their place of worshi... ...mb; the bells of the morris-danc- ers tinkled with tremulous affright. The Puritans had played a characteristic part in the Maypole mummeries. Their d... ...of one substance with his headpiece and breastplate. It was the Puritan of Puritans; it was Endicott himself! “Stand off, priest of Baal!” said he, wi...

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... you must lump it. I really cannot help it. In the preface to my Plays for Puritans I explained the predicament of our contemporary English drama, for...

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...s, satyrs, and pure sensuality. If we con- demn it, we either go over to the Puritans or we join those who are wont to come to table with no edge to t...

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...e narrative they were delighted with; especially the descriptions of the Puritans, and the sermons and harangues of the Round head soldiers. The g...

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...umption of the Prophetic office, called themselves Hanyfs, i.e., converts, puritans, and were believers in one God, and regarded Abraham as the founde...