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- 201: Nathanial Hawthorne
- ... Gables". The story of The House Of The Seven Gables streches over two centuries. It's the classic scenario of two rival families, in this case the Pyncheons ( weathly aristocratic puritans) and the Maules ( humbler paupers). The story of these two families begins with Matthew Maule, who owned a certain amount of land and built himself a hut to live in ...
- 202: American Revolution
- ... neglect of the American colonies. When the early settlers came to the newly discovered continent of America, their intentions were rather simple. Beginning from the Pilgrims in Plymouth and the Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay colony, God was the main focus of their colonization. Both groups were upset of the development of the church of England, and in attempt to purify ...
- 203: Nicholas Ferrar
- ... try to enlist support from the Scots. John brought him secretly to Little Gidding and got him away the next day. The community was now in much danger. The Presbyterian Puritans were now on the rise and the community was condemned with a series of pamphlets calling them an ˙ Arminian Nunnery˙ (Ariminius was a Dutch reformer and theologian who opposed ...
- 204: Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
- ... in the war of 55. since which a new generation had grown up. With the help therefore of Rushworth, whom we rummaged over for the revolutionary precedents & forms of the Puritans of that day, preserved by him, we cooked up a resolution, somewhat modernizing their phrases, for appointing the 1st day of June, on which the Port bill was to commence ...
- 205: Colonies
- ... of the motivation of the New England settlers for religious freedom. "This court... in the interim recommends [that] all tradesmen and laborers consider the religious end of their callings...". The puritans believed everyone had a specific duty in life, something that one was proficient at. Almost all the mores and society itself radiated from religion, as a result, many people who ...
- 206: Commercialism As Americas Hidd
- ... a low priority to many Americans. I become uneasy when I hear someone say, Art is dead in America! The truth is that traditional art is dead in America. Did puritans sail the Atlantic ocean to settle here and be just like the people they broke away from? America s having non-traditional art is a blessing to its original idea ...
- 207: Henry Adams
- ... the exploding world of science and technology, where all certainties of the future have vanished (anb.org, 1). Adams grew up in the United Stated where he was a Puritan. Puritans believed that sex (women especially) was just a form of fertility and reproduction; otherwise sex was a sin (Adams, 384). American art, like the American language and American education, was ...
- 208: Nicholas Ferrar
- ... try to enlist support from the Scots. John brought him secretly to Little Gidding and got him away the next day. The community was now in much danger. The Presbyterian Puritans were now on the rise and the community was condemned with a series of pamphlets calling them an "Arminian Nunnery" (Ariminius was a Dutch reformer and theologian who opposed the ...
- 209: Emily Dickinson
- ... life and adopted the new transcendental outlook. Massachusetts, the state where Emily was born and raised in, before the transcendental period was the epicenter of religious practice. Founded by the puritans, the feeling of the avenging had never left the people. After all of the "Great Awakenings" and religious revivals the people of New England began to question the old ways ...
- 210: George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" - A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes
- ... Unpleasant' in 1898, the year Shaw married Charlotte Payne-Townshend. Shaw's second period started in 1898 and lasted until 1939. The period started when Shaw wrote three ‘Plays for Puritans' and contains the highlights of his career. Shaw will always be know for plays such as ‘ Pygmalion', a play he wrote in 1912 for the actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell - perhaps ...
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