puritan

• “According to this doctrine, which I call the puritan heresy, the duality resolves itself into a struggle between the spirit and the flesh.”

  The Complex Vision

• “Doubtless it will reach your father's house ere long, if it be not, as is more likely, already there, for it is the vile work of one they call a puritan, though where even the writer can vainly imagine the purity of such work to lie, let the pamphlet itself raise the question.”

  St. George and St. Michael

• “The practical vs. the puritan is a choice that cuts to the heart of all politics.”

  The Huffington Post: Rhoades Alderson: To D.C., ♥ N.E.: Primary Choices for the Netroots

• “I would scarce send to the Vicomte a reader who was in quest of what we may call puritan morality.”

  Memories and Portraits

• “Lord's day at his house, (which he slighted, not loving to be called a puritan) Mr. Welch came one day to his gate and calling him out to tell him, that he had a message from God to shew him, that because he had slighted the advice given him from the Lord, and would not restrain the profanation of the Lord's day committed in his bounds; therefore the”

  Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies

• “I suspect its some kind of puritan overcompensation for their long-term flirtation with those wicked, wicked Kennedy boys.”

  SurveyUSA: Hillary And Romney Way Ahead In Massachusetts

• “Yes, people love to throw around the word "puritan," but do they even know what it really means?”

  What is Puritanism?

• “They defined themselves as some kind of puritan, pure of any kind of wisodm.”

  Four Years After May 1, 2003: Are We Winning Yet?

• “A new biography of the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony says: "Winthrop, then 42, a country lawyer and lay leader of a 'puritan' congregation, was a political moderate among religious zealots, an advocate of 'unity rather than uniformity,' perhaps the one man who 'could keep the colony from fragmenting' when it was threatened by a polarizing dispute.”

  Philocrites: July 2003 Archives

• “Still, the word 'puritan' has been thrown up for consideration.”

  Shakespeare

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