Search results for "Puritan" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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) - 17:41, 23 May 2024
- 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) - 15:44, 20 May 2024
- 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
