Word: puritans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Robert Fletcher Rogers, The Puritan Principle. - Wendell Phillips...
Burnett, Liberty and Union; Daniel Webster. Hutchins, Donatello's Statue of St. George. Rogers. The Puritan Principle; Wendell Phillips. Santayana. The Prayer of Achilles to his Mother; Homer. Von Klenz, The Parting of Hector and Andromache; Homer. Webster, Daniel O'Connell; Wendell Phillips. Winter, The Prisoner of Chillon; Byron. Bowen, Cambyses and the Macrobion Bow; Paul H. Hayne. A. C. Coolidge, The Greek Revolution; Henry Clay. W. L. Currier. Abolition in 1830; W. L. Garrison, Hamilton, Home Rule; W. E. Gladstone. Stedman, Against Whipping in the Navy; Commodore Stockton. Sternbergh, A Defence of Massachusetts; Anson Burlingame. J. E. Walker...
...Puritans believed that the man who had no regular profession was doomed to perdition. To them leisure looked like the larceny of other people's time. Mr. Quincy was one of the first gentlemen of leisure. His stories are most charming; his letters are models in their way; he stood in the fore-front of the desperately unpopular cause of Abolition; was a finished scholar, a delightful man, and a thorough patriot. How many men of business have left a better record? Yet the old Puritan prejudice had as most Puritan notions had, a principle beneath that is fundamentally right...
...last ten years she has graduated a number of gilded literary youths with hearts so light and consciences so easy (we would not say callous) that, where-as they might have been intellectual, they have been content to be merely clever. It must be acknowledged that in this Puritan part of the world they have given us a new, if not an original point of view; they look upon the universe as a vast storehouse of possible amusements, and read, think and write, not in pursuit of truth, but for diversion. They all have written books...
...Malcolm Forbes has just bought the famous Puritan from Mr. Paine her present owner. Gen. Paine is having a new 85 foot sloop designed for him by Mr. Burgess...