Puritans

One, the high church Anglicans, wanted to maintain a hierarchical structure and a formal liturgy while the other sought to "purify" it hence their name Puritans of what they regarded as abominable remnants of Roman Catholicism.

Roy M. Pitkin: The King James Bible: 400 And Going Strong Roy M. Pitkin 2011

It was perhaps significant of our need of what Napoleon called a "revival of civic morals" that the public appeal against such a reversal of our traditions had to be based largely upon the contributions to American progress made from other revolutions; the Puritans from the English, Lafayette from the French, Carl Schurz and many another able man from the German upheavals in the middle of the century.

Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes 1910

They were the descendants of the baptized Puritans whose religious fervor had been for generations at white heat.

Life of Father Hecker Walter Elliott 1885

The bell which was sent out from France for the Indian converts of the Jesuits, and was captured by an English ship and carried into Salem, and thence sold to Deerfield, where it called the Puritans to prayer, till at last it also summoned the priest-led

Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

After the Restoration, many of them came to be known as Independents; and to these, especially in America, the name Puritans, has been adroitly confined; some of them came to be known as Baptists; some as Presbyterians; many of them were Episcopalians,

The Historic Significance of the Southern Revolution: A Lecture Delivered by Invitation in Petersburg, Va., March 14th and April 29th, 1864, and in Richmond, Va., April 7th and April 21st, 1864 1864

'The enemies that we shall have to deal with are the more determined heretics whom we call Puritans, and certain creatures of the Queen, the

English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 James Anthony Froude 1856

"I suppose because those you call Puritans love the truth," said Dolly;

The End of a Coil Susan Warner 1852

Anglican church, became known as Puritans, for their theological severity, and later still as

TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

"Puritans" - as Medved likes to wax nostalgic - to the zealot core.

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'Least in the States, which, seeing that it was founded by Puritans, is a big fucking deal.

It was Protest The Pill Day! fantasyecho 2008