The practical vs. the puritan is a choice that cuts to the heart of all politics. From Wordnik.com. [Rhoades Alderson: To D.C., ♥ N.E.: Primary Choices for the Netroots] Reference
I would scarce send to the Vicomte a reader who was in quest of what we may call puritan morality. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Portraits] Reference
Still, the word 'puritan' has been thrown up for consideration. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
They defined themselves as some kind of puritan, pure of any kind of wisodm. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years After May 1, 2003: Are We Winning Yet?] Reference
So much, in fact, that just a few days ago I’ve been called a puritan and a prude. From Wordnik.com. [The welfare state’s dirty little secret is out] Reference
Yes, people love to throw around the word "puritan," but do they even know what it really means?. From Wordnik.com. [What is Puritanism?] Reference
I don't know)) a 'puritan' where 'my' English is concerned. From Wordnik.com. [On txtng] Reference
Maria describes Malvolio as sometimes 'a kind of puritan ', Nowhere else does Shakespeare use this term (though Angelo's being. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
A life-sized diorama depicted a wax figure in gray puritan garb. From Wordnik.com. [The Trials] Reference
The puritan fathers forbade all indulgence in mirth and happiness. From Wordnik.com. [Herself Talks with Women Concerning Themselves] Reference
Hence, in order to defend art, one must reckon seriously with the puritan. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
The puritan is fearful, above all, of works of art that represent moral evil. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
Catholic, and Protestant with cordiality and only smile at the puritan or Brownist. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference
The charge of the puritan appears no more just to the poet than that of the philosopher. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
To all these considerations the puritan will doubtless oppose a truth impossible to deny. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
As a former top adviser put it, "This kind of behavior offends his puritan sensibilities.". From Wordnik.com. [The 'Air Sununu' Flap] Reference
The puritan condemns the poet as lacking reverence, that is, as having no "religious instinct.". From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
He could like the Protestant better were it not for the puritan, and the papist but for the Jesuit. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
The puritan representative is part of the despised state government, but is a voice of protest there. From Wordnik.com. [Rhoades Alderson: To D.C., ♥ N.E.: Primary Choices for the Netroots] Reference
"The interpreter," 1622, deals with "three principall terms of state -- a puritan, a Protestant, a papist.". From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Neither did he preach the gospel with the sword, like the Spaniard, nor with fire and fagot, like the puritan. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
In this he is unlike the puritan, who is often all too sensitive to beauty for his own good -- hence his alarms. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
Backing a puritan progressive is not a statement against Blue Dogism when there is another progressive in the field. From Wordnik.com. [Rhoades Alderson: To D.C., ♥ N.E.: Primary Choices for the Netroots] Reference
How awkward if she should presently return with one of those grim aunts, or that solemn puritan-like husband of hers. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
Edward and Mary, but it rarely enters the Elizabethan drama, and then mainly in the form of ridicule for the puritan. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference
You grasped an idea without knowing whether it made you realist, romanticist, or classicist; papist, puritan, or pagan. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference
"I once suggested that Coward was a puritan dandy with a Martini in one hand and a moral sampler in the other," he reminds us. From Wordnik.com. [What to say about ... Design for Living] Reference
The old puritan feeling was still too great to acknowledge the equal rights, political and religious, of other than Christians. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
Historian Romila Thapar points to the fact that the Chandellas 'rule coincided with the decline of the puritan influence of Buddhism. From Wordnik.com. [Tempting The Gods] Reference
John Milton, England's great 17th century religious poet and political polemist, Milton, the puritan of puritans, writing bawdy poems?. From Wordnik.com. [A Bawdy Milton Poem, Or 17th Century Fraud?] Reference
He will take upon him with oaths to pelt some tenderer man out of his company, and makes good sport at his conquest over the puritan fool. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
She had no patience with those who could not "see the truth;" and he who reviled the puritan mode of worship, was "worse than the infidel.". From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
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