Word: puritanly
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...Shakespeare heading the list. The Third, printed in 1664, claims to present seven hitherto unpublished works "according to true original copies." Six of these are spurious, however, and only one, "Pericles, Prince of Tyre, is Shakespeare's. The others, which include such plays as he "Yorkshire Tragedy" and the "Puritan Widow" are by authors unknown today...
...Puritan is mastered...
...many lands. The search for truth is a thorny way too, implying an intellectual integrity, a willingness to face facts, and complete freedom from prejudice and passion. It is a high ideal for the future, but much the same as the spirit and purpose that motivated the Puritan forefathers when they chose for their cloud by day and their pillar of fire by night the word "veritas...
...long abed, early morning worship being for a select few, the Vagabond too old and ragged a fellow for the company. Wistfully musing, till reconciled by the happy thought that religious democracy isn't Puritan and John Harvard was. Felt cheered in my heart, moreover, by prospect of a morning of speeches that even the Vagabond and his merry fellows could understand, after so promiscuous a display of forbidding wisdom...
...ended for the nonce all Puritan sobriety, and the Vagabond tried hard to partake of twentieth-century gaiety, with only John Harvard's likeness and the glow of the dancing torch-flames to remind of the celebrated past. The Pop Concert popped, and the merry ones sipped and stepped away the night, and a weary Vagabond crawled off to bed, already envying his progeny-to-be their four-hundredth birthday party...