Word: puritanly
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...Puritan regime was overthrown and the reaction was strong against solemnity and restraint. The succeeding literature showed little reverence or earnestness, but bubbled over with jollity...
Everything in fact was sacrificed to wit. Besides this, French influence made itself felt strongly, both in spirit and the form of literature. The tendency was strongly toward an affectation of loose morals - much worse than the reality, in fact, - bred partly by the hatred of Puritan sanctity and partly by the following of French ideas...
...answer to what is the chief aim of man has fastened itself on literature and on all life. Most people would say in answer to this question that it is to glorify God. The glory of God brought the Puritan here, it kept him here and it made him what...
...imply that man belongs to the universe as one of the masters of the universe. In the New Testament it says that man is the son of God, and it is not because the Puritan believed this but because he worked for it, that he made his progress. In those days whatever the duty of the man was he went to it with the spirit that it was to glorify...
...Puritan time, the boy, the girl, the mother and the father, came to prayer each night as they had done in the morning. Is it not clear that if we could make a town, a state, a nation begin each day in this way and with the purpose to glorify God, that it could achieve impossibilities...