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  • intention of training clergy so that the Puritan colony would not have to ... training of home-grown clergy so that the Puritan colony would not need to ...
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  • followed, with varying success, by later Puritan colonies," according ... Cambridge University played an important role in advancing Puritan ...
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  • Manasseh replied to the anti-Jewish tract of Puritan polemicist William Prynne in Vindiciae judaeorum (1656), considered one of Manasseh's finest works. ...
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  • *Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson. 1947. The Puritan oligarchy; the founding of American civilization. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. ...
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  • on October 27, 1800, and was of Puritan ancestry. He was reared on a farm, receiving most of his early education from his mother. ...
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  • Act." It was proposed by a Puritan Member of Parliament, Edward ... 1662 in Boston, founded in 1630 by Puritan settlers led by John Winthrop ...
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  • of 1604, a meeting of bishops and Puritan divines, resisted the pressure for change (save to the catechism). By the reign of Charles I (1625 ...
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  • legacy of Americana, with its deep Christian and Puritan heritage, as a basis of many of his most memorable scores. The Lincoln Portrait, Rodeo, Billy ...
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  • those taught by the Protestant (and Puritan) Uchimura Kanzo, who influenced famous men of letters such as Arishima Takeo, Masamune Hakucho, and ...
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  • Catholic army was decisively defeated by a Puritan army near Annapolis in what ... The Puritan revolt lasted until 1658. In that year the Calvert family ...
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  • During the Interregnum, England had been dominated by Puritan literature ... bartleby.com/217/0312.html Cavalier and Puritan: Writers of the Couplet: ...
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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 ...
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  • in 1642, Massachusetts Bay Colony became a Puritan stronghold. The Puritans ... Pilgrims settled the Plymouth Colony, and Puritan settlers traveled to Salem ...
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  • and contrasted them with the rebuking words of Puritan preacher Cotton Mather. What could be considered her magnum opus was the production of ...
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  • and he was later called "the last Puritan" by his student, Jesse R. Pitts (Hamilton 1983). Parsons' father also served as president ...
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  • chancellor of the university and also a Puritan. Although he was a capable ... The influences of Locke's Puritan upbringing and his Whig political ...
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  • * Murray, Ian H. The Puritan Hope: Revival and the Interpretation of Prophecy. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1971. * Strachan, Gordon. The Pentecostal ...
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  • These last suggestions reveal Fox's Puritan leanings, which continued ... beliefs were welcome to all Quakers. His Puritan-like opposition to the arts ...
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  • than the Restoration. There were Puritan authors, however, and one ... Defoe's works are consistently Puritan. They all involve a fall ...
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  • 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 ...
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