Search results for "Puritan" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 451 It may, however, also be a sign of Puritan sympathies, which some sources ... * The Puritan * The Second Maiden's Tragedy * Sir John Oldcastle ...56 KB (8,436 words) - 10:51, 12 May 2023
- a result of the efforts of Eleazar Wheelock, a Puritan minister, and his patron, Royal Governor John Wentworth. (Queen's College, now Rutgers University ...29 KB (4,327 words) - 22:24, 25 January 2024
- Gould maintained, "I am something of a Puritan" with respect to any substances that would alter or dull his mental state—not drinking alcohol ...30 KB (4,344 words) - 04:42, 28 April 2023
- The term Huguenot refers to a member of the Protestant Reformed Church of France, historically known as the French Calvinists. Calvinism, and ...28 KB (4,156 words) - 15:10, 9 February 2024
- The fathers of New England; a chronicle of the Puritan commonwealths. (The Chronicles of America series, v. 6.) New Haven: Yale University Press. ...32 KB (4,620 words) - 09:13, 11 March 2023
- title ironically derived from John Bunyan's Puritan allegory of redemption The Pilgrim's Progress (1678)—follows the career of fortune ...30 KB (4,326 words) - 20:12, 13 April 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:James I of England by Daniel Mytens in 1621.jpg|thumb|250px|James I wore the insignia of the Order of the Garter for the ...30 KB (4,913 words) - 21:16, 20 March 2024
- near present day Boston (consisting mainly of Puritan Christians, who had very different religious beliefs from the Pilgrims) celebrated Thanksgiving ...36 KB (5,333 words) - 15:08, 30 April 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. What would emerge ...31 KB (4,663 words) - 19:57, 8 December 2022
- to 1760, its main revivalist Jonathan Edwards with Puritan heritage gave his postmillenarian message, encouraging people to take active responsibility ...33 KB (4,990 words) - 23:36, 20 April 2021
- *Conservative/puritan criticism went further, condemning Qutb's Islamist/reformist ideas—such as social justice as "western" ...31 KB (4,669 words) - 02:31, 21 April 2023
- his father Charles I fought Parliamentary and Puritan forces in the English Civil War. The prince accompanied his father during the Battle of Edgehill ...35 KB (5,347 words) - 02:10, 13 January 2023
- Freedom of religion is a political principle guaranteeing freedom of belief and freedom of worship for individuals and groups. It is generally ...36 KB (5,594 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- A fourth-generation American whose Puritan ancestors arrived in Massachusetts in 1636, Adams was the father of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president ...36 KB (5,521 words) - 07:33, 5 April 2024
- Connecticut is one of the Unites States. It is located in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. Connecticut is ...36 KB (5,082 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- The term drama comes from a Greek word meaning "action" (Classical Greek: δράμα , dráma), which is derived from "to do" ...37 KB (5,637 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- until the nineteenth century, where lingering Puritan tradition restricted the observance of many holidays. American almanacs of the late-eighteenth ...37 KB (5,487 words) - 23:07, 3 August 2023
- Leiden when he was hired by a group of refugee Puritan dissenters from England to act as their adviser on military matters. Eugene A. Stratton ...41 KB (6,248 words) - 19:30, 26 October 2021
- suspect, and a reminder of the repudiated Puritan era. The King James Bible then became the only current version circulated among English speaking ...43 KB (6,830 words) - 17:26, 6 June 2024
- School in the hopes that it would maintain the Puritan religious orthodoxy in a way that Harvard had not.[http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/ht ...40 KB (5,720 words) - 10:04, 22 May 2023
