Search results for "Puritan" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Harvard educated Mather Byles, a nephew of the puritan leader Cotton Mather. Phillis Wheatley, Notable Black American Women, Book 1 (Gale Research ...13 KB (1,993 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- in 1642, Massachusetts Bay Colony became a Puritan stronghold. The Puritans ... Pilgrims settled the Plymouth Colony, and Puritan settlers traveled to Salem ...52 KB (7,434 words) - 08:45, 10 March 2023
- and contrasted them with the rebuking words of Puritan preacher Cotton Mather. What could be considered her magnum opus was the production of ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- and he was later called "the last Puritan" by his student, Jesse R. Pitts (Hamilton 1983). Parsons' father also served as president ...14 KB (1,904 words) - 21:04, 13 November 2020
- chancellor of the university and also a Puritan. Although he was a capable ... The influences of Locke's Puritan upbringing and his Whig political ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 16:04, 27 March 2024
- * Murray, Ian H. The Puritan Hope: Revival and the Interpretation of Prophecy. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1971. * Strachan, Gordon. The Pentecostal ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
- than the Restoration. There were Puritan authors, however, and one ... Defoe's works are consistently Puritan. They all involve a fall ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 18:29, 28 February 2023
- had been banned for 18 years by the Puritan regime, the re-opening of the theaters in 1660 signaled a rebirth of English drama. The era of Restoration ...15 KB (2,294 words) - 17:44, 26 January 2023
- These last suggestions reveal Fox's Puritan leanings, which continued ... beliefs were welcome to all Quakers. His Puritan-like opposition to the arts ...29 KB (4,689 words) - 10:15, 13 December 2023
- perhaps in response to the struggles of the Puritan era. Among the tragedies, The Maid's Tragedy and, especially, Rollo Duke of Normandy held the ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 06:38, 8 April 2024
- years of continuous operation, it was closed by the Puritan government which closed all London theaters on moral grounds. The building was demolished ...14 KB (2,143 words) - 08:02, 24 January 2023
- nicknamed him "the last Puritan" for his views; in 1788 he would write in his diary regarding the federalist and anti-federalist factions ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 02:17, 23 December 2022
- from Northampton, Massachusetts, who came from Puritan and Calvinist roots, but emphasized the importance and power of immediate, personal religious ...15 KB (2,094 words) - 17:24, 28 March 2024
- The Christian ethic as interpreted by the Puritan middle class called for dedication to work, honesty, thrift, and charity. It was fundamentally ...17 KB (2,518 words) - 01:47, 4 December 2023
- largely as a reaction to the collapse of the Puritan era. He is often attributed to leading the way for notable playwrights such as William Congreve ...15 KB (2,460 words) - 08:05, 23 January 2023
- abbey suffered damage when it was attacked by Puritan iconoclasts, but was again protected by its close ties to the state during the Commonwealth period ...17 KB (2,475 words) - 17:21, 4 May 2023
- to rebel against the earlier strictures of the Puritan revolution. As tastes changed again, Congreve fell silent. For the majority of his life, he lived ...16 KB (2,529 words) - 15:55, 7 May 2023
- century through certain Reformed and Puritan scholars, and the Great ... premillennialism." In the New World, Puritan ministers such as Thomas ...47 KB (6,873 words) - 18:00, 9 November 2022
- played an important role in advancing Puritan and separatist principles. Robert Browne, John Greenwood, Henry Barrowe, and the future Pilgrim ...34 KB (4,989 words) - 13:06, 3 May 2023
- non-conformist clergymen and closing Puritan organizations. This was ... *Gardiner, Samuel Rawson, ed. The Constitutional Documents of the ...42 KB (6,645 words) - 19:12, 4 December 2023
- * The Puritan (1606) * The Revenger's Tragedy, a tragedy (1606); although sometimes attributed to Cyril Tourneur, stylistic analysis strongly ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 21:23, 30 April 2023
- sweep into the towns from the desert, where a puritan lifestyle and strong group feeling are natural, establish rule then themselves become lax as ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 08:17, 23 July 2023
- Woods 6 Indian Idyl 7 To an Old White Pine 8 From Puritan Days 9 From a Log Cabin 10 The Joy of Autumn Published compositions for orchestra, a ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 23:45, 12 February 2024
- the Merchant Adventurers, a group of Puritan businessmen who viewed colonization ... Richard Howland Maxwell, "Pilgrim and Puritan: A Delicate Distinction ...62 KB (9,521 words) - 01:56, 10 April 2023
- Marvell. It is highly likely that Dickinson, a Puritan, may have come into contact with the work of the Metaphysicals, if not directly then by way of ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 18:16, 13 February 2024
- ancestry tracing to the first generation of Puritan New England immigrants, John Quincy revered both of his parents for their emphasis on virtue and the ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 03:49, 3 May 2024
- founded as squatter colonies by dissenters from Puritan Massachusetts, received charters of incorporation early in the English Restoration (restoration ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 07:42, 13 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Law Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family [[Image:François Boucher ...20 KB (2,953 words) - 08:14, 14 January 2023
- that the king supported the Irish, and Puritan members of the Commons were ... idea of describing the civil war as a “Puritan Revolution” that challenged ...48 KB (7,492 words) - 18:35, 13 February 2024
- have to face the road through the wilderness of Puritan denial, the road that Dreiser faced alone. Dreiser was a man of eclectic interests that ...16 KB (2,526 words) - 17:57, 30 April 2023
- was often traced to America's Puritan heritage, particularly John ... *Gavin Finley MD, [http://www.endtimepilgrim.org/puritans03.htm Puritan ...40 KB (6,026 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- *Sommerville, C. John. 1992. The Discovery of Childhood in Puritan England. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0820313535 ...37 KB (5,556 words) - 01:00, 23 February 2021
- questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=1105748 A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge.] ===Primary sources=== *Coolidge, Calvin. 1929. [http://www ...18 KB (2,751 words) - 18:37, 25 November 2023
- Described as a 'scrap of paper' that changed history, the Balfour Declaration led to the creation of the modern State of Israel as ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 05:52, 26 August 2023
- married without the Queen's consent, and the Puritan Lord Huntingdon was unwilling to accept the Crown. Mary, Queen of Scots, had to suffer ...47 KB (7,593 words) - 16:23, 13 February 2024
- tried for treason and executed in 1645, by the Puritan Parliament during the English Civil War. After the Parliamentary victory over the King, he was ...18 KB (2,949 words) - 02:26, 1 August 2022
- What they did build was characteristically puritan in style, with little decoration. Ali ibn Yusuf supported the famous University of Al-Karaouine ...19 KB (2,956 words) - 08:18, 23 July 2023
- That lusty laugh the Puritan forgot,— What ear has heard it and remembers not? How often, halting at some wide crevasse Amid the windings of ...18 KB (2,730 words) - 04:09, 4 November 2022
- This policy was defeated (1585) by the Puritan wing of the council under Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, and Sir Francis Walsingham. ...19 KB (3,064 words) - 23:35, 3 December 2023
- members of the Congregational Church. Raised with Puritan values, daily Bible reading, and talk of God's healing power, she spent many years looking ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 16:00, 7 November 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:RWEmerson.jpg|thumb|230px|Ralph Waldo Emerson]] Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was the preeminent ...20 KB (2,972 words) - 00:31, 8 December 2022
- Paolo E. Coletta, William Jennings Bryan Vol. 3: Political Puritan ... ** William Jennings Bryan, Vol. 3: Political Puritan, 1915-1925. Lincoln ...37 KB (5,377 words) - 11:07, 10 May 2023
- Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900 – April 30, 1974) was a versatile American actress who won acclaim in radio, film, television and ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 16 June 2023
- The German Pietist movement, together with the influence of the Puritan Reformation in England in the seventeenth century, were important influences ...23 KB (3,274 words) - 08:17, 2 December 2022
- suspect, and a reminder of the repudiated Puritan era. The King James Bible then became the only current version circulated among English speaking ...44 KB (6,927 words) - 23:10, 3 March 2023
- Puritan colonists from England founded the city in 1630. During the ... Boston was founded on September 17, 1630, by Puritan colonists from ...40 KB (5,847 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category: Holiday {{Infobox Holiday | |holiday_name=May Day |image=Maypoles.jpg ...20 KB (3,175 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- of the city, and various offshoots of the Puritan and "Independent" ... than the Restoration. There were Puritan authors, however, and one ...61 KB (9,767 words) - 03:12, 31 January 2023
- #039;s eyes Dickens belongs to Merry, not Puritan, England" (see Merry England); Ker treats in chapter 4 of that book Chesterton's ...21 KB (3,246 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
- were accused of antinomian teachings by the Puritan leadership of Massachusetts. ==Antinomianism in Islam== In Islam, Sharia (شريعة) (law ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 06:34, 31 July 2023
