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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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... James II. In this chapter we see the restoration of the House of Stuart. The mood of the people sours toward the Roundheads, Army and, of course the Puritans. An examination of the character of Charles II. We see Charles attempting to recruit assistance from France so he can attain absolute monarchy and so emulate Lewis the Fourteenth, the French Sun King. (Summary by Jim...

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...t, Charles I, Fairfax, and Lambert. The setting for this tale of men and arms is taken from the stirring days of the Bavaliers and the Roundheads, of Puritans and the so-called malignants; but the machines of war are rather in the background, while in the spotlight is a witching woman, a conqueror of hearts and a marker of destinies. The story tells of a woman's ambition t...

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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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...and, blamed persecution in the Roman church, but practised it against the Puritans: these found it wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same prac... ...sins of the body, that St. Paul warned us about, and the practices of the Puritans and Quakers in early America have made it almost impossible to cal... ...w, pre-marital sex may not be the negative that people often believe. The Puritans in America allowed courting couples to sleep together at the girl...

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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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...ts of Utah. The Quakers had to hold secret meetings in friend’s houses. The Puritans were quickly corrupted by their own work ethic and by their ow...

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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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...ial as is presented by the sombre, stern, and rigid characteristics of the Puritans and their descendants, is quite as difficult an attempt as to manu... ... great deal of the history of the country. So Grandfather talked about the Puritans, {Foot Note: It is more precise to give the name of Pilgrims to th... ... sometimes Brownists after the name of one of their eminent ministers. The Puritans formed a great political as well as religious party in England, an... ...eligious forms and ceremonies of 9 Hawthorne the Church of England. These Puritans suffered so much persecuted in England that, in 1607, many of them... ...ime a colony by itself. And thus was formed the earliest settlement of the Puritans in America. Meantime, those of the Puritans who remained in Englan... ...Endicott at their bead, to commence a plantation at Salem. {Foot Note: The Puritans had a liking for Biblical names for their children, and they somet... ...d may be considered as the first settlers of that ancient town. Many other Puritans prepared to follow Endicott. “And now we come to the chair, my dea... ...randfather sChair “He was a gentleman of great wealth, who agreed with the Puritans in their religious opinions,” answered Grandfather. “And as his be... ... talents and great learning, who had imbibed the religious opinions of the Puritans, and left England with the intention of spending his life in Massa...

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... by it! No Christians, since the early ages, or only perhaps the En- glish Puritans in modern times, have ever stood by their Faith as the Moslem do b... ...ittle ship Mayflower, and made ready to set sail. In Neal’s History of the Puritans [Neal (London, 1755), i. 490] is an account of the ceremony of the... ...e Montfort; wars enough, which are not very memorable. But that war of the Puritans has a significance which belongs to no one of the others. T rustin... ...of things, against men in- tent on the semblances and forms of things. The Puritans, to many, seem mere savage Iconoclasts, fierce destroyers of Forms... ...e. The naked formlessness of Puritan- ism is not the thing I praise in the Puritans; it is the thing I pity,—praising only the spirit which had render... ...l earnest men do and will reject. We can partly understand what those poor Puritans meant. Laud dedicating that St. Catherine Creed’s Church, in the m... ...come a lie! These two Antagonisms at war here, in the case of Laud and the Puritans, are as old nearly as the world. They went to fierce battle over E... ...ny re- sults for all of us. IN THE AGE which directly followed that of the Puritans, their cause or themselves were little likely to have justice done... ...d forgotten. Puritanism was hung on gibbets,—like the bones of the leading Puritans. Its work nevertheless went on accomplishing itself. All true work...

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...rother Guise hath gathered a power of men, Which are he saith, to kill the Puritans, But tis the house of Burbon that he meanest Now Madam must you in... ... zeale, I meane to muster all the power I can, To overthrow those factious Puritans: And know, the Pope will sell his triple crowne, I, and the cathol...

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... forth removed. Doubtless, however, either of these stern and black browed Puritans would have thought it quite a sufficient retribution for his sins ... ...n’s shoulders above the street. Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so picturesque in her... ...a witch’s anathemas in some unknown tongue. The truth was, that the little Puritans, being of the most intolerant brood that ever lived, had got a vag... ...hild to whom this inauspicious ori gin was assigned among the New England Puritans. VII. VII. VII. VII. VII. THE GO THE GO THE GO THE GO THE GO ... ...e two wayfarers came within the precincts of the town, the children of the Puritans looked up from their player what passed for play with those sombre... ...ter laugh. It was his custom, too, as it has been that of many other pious Puritans, to fast— not however, like them, in order to purify the body, and... ...eady was, and continued to be during the greater part of two centuries—the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to ... ... yielding the minutest degree of control over her motions in requital. The Puritans looked on, and, if they smiled, were none the less inclined to pro...

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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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...any tendency to increase crime, or to lower the character of the people. The Puritans of that time, were as much opposed to harm less recreations and...

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...y had given her. She had named her children after the prevailing custom of Puritans because she had heard the chaplain object to what he con- sidered ... ...t into the place there was less cheerfulness among the loyal folk, and the Puritans began to talk of victories of their cause, while in the Cathedral ... ...past mending. “I hate tidiness. Only Puritan rebels are tidy!” “We are not Puritans!” cried Rusha. Emlyn laughed. “Hark at your names,” she said. “And... ...iven to excess, total absti- nence formed no part of the discipline of the Puritans; and one of the men started forward, and seizing hold of Stead- fa... ...ltering Cavaliers?” “I only wish they had kept her there. All old women be Puritans at heart. I say Stead, I’ll have done with service. Let 137 Yo n ...

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...virtue, and its irresistibles might against ugly Evil, appealed as much to Puritans as Catholics. Suddenly, and as if it were done in a dream, Hilda f... ... in holy water; never sign my bosom with the cross. I am a daughter of the Puritans. But, in spite of my heresy,” she added with a sweet, tearful smil... ...ON KNEW the sanctity which Hilda (faithful Protestant, and daughter of the Puritans, as the girl was) imputed to this shrine. He was aware of the prof... ...or two disturbing recollec- tions, and also because I am a daughter of the Puritans I could willingly have dwelt there forever. “My entanglement with ...

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...tter than to become martyrs. Ay, and observe—it just occurs to me that the Puritans are furious against Buckingham, and their preachers designate him ... ...ke marble and as hard and impenetrable, she recognized one of those gloomy Puritans she had so often met, not only in the court of King James, but in ... ...inued she, with that tone of enthusiasm which she knew was familiar to the Puritans. “Well, let my God save me, or let me perish for my God! That is t... ...ice, she began the first couplet of the psalm then in great favor with the Puritans: “Thou leavest thy servants, Lord, To see if they be strong; But s... ...e verses were not excellent—very far from it; but as it is well known, the Puritans did not pique themselves upon their poetry. While singing, Milady ... ...lished poetry of these psalms a magic and an effect which the most exalted Puritans rarely found in the songs of their brethren, and which they were f... ...selves called the extortioner, the pil- lager, the debauchee, and whom the Puritans styled simply Satan. “Oh, my God, my God!” cried Milady; “when I s... ...eak as I was, a long resistance, for I heard him cry out, ‘These miserable Puritans! I knew very well that they tired out their execu- tioners, but I ... ...e? Come, I am a good sort of a prince,’ added he, ‘and although I like not Puritans I do them justice; and it is the same with Puritanesses, when they...

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...n their hands,—the old fowling piece of seven foot barrel, with which the Puritans had shot ducks on the river and Walden Pond; the heavy harquebus, ... ..., perhaps more than one, but certainly one son, who, on the arrival of the Puritans, was a youth, his father appearing to have been slain in some out ... ...th which a madman can so well conceal his infirmity. On the arrival of the Puritans, they had found among the Indians a youth partly of their own bloo...

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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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...id the new comer. “Be so good as to mention this name to his eminence and to bring me word whether he will receive me—yes or no.” Saying which, he res... ...o retain his incognito. He was silent for an instant, and 293 Dumas during that time he scanned the young man even more at- tentively than he had don... ...e contrary, it seemed to be a delicate attention, to be gratefully received; D’Artagnan, therefore, thanked the man and gave him a crown piece to drin... ...rthos?” “Our future, our ambition!” replied D’Artagnan, with fe- verish volubility. “Need we think of that since we are to save the king? The king sav... ...“Let D’Artagnan speak,” said Athos; “you know he al- ways has wise advice to give.” “Clearly,” said D’Artagnan, “we must go where they will not look f... ...n at first sight. Now, I don’t set sufficient store on the cut of my jerkin to risk being hung at Tyburn or sent for change of scene to the Indies. I ... ...d, but Charles clasped his and pressed it to his heart. At this moment a man entered, without even knocking at the door. Aramis tried to withdraw his ...