Word: puritans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from joining in the general admiration for "Paradise Lost." The poem, except the part which deals with Satan, seems to me exceedingly formal and wanting in true inspiration. God and the whole heavenly council talk like the divines of the Westminster Assembly. Adam and Eve are a typical Puritan and his wife. The heavenly and infernal hosts fight a sort of celestial Marston Moor or Naseby, which is finally won for the Parliament and Calvinism by a dashing charge of the celestial Ironsides led by Christinstead of Cromwell. But the character of Satan is truly grand. Like all great literary...
...their mother tongue, Consolantius and Aegidius were forthwith "summoned to the president's office, "and, after receiving a suitabel reprimand in the Latin of the period, were "subjected to such corporeal discipline "under the eye or the hand of the president as then commended itself to the "average Puritan and Anglo-Saxon "mind." With the abandonment of this custom, however, it would seem as if the real excuse for the use of Latin in the catalogue were no longer valiad...
...named Clare. This small college, which can boast of but one beautiful court, was once one of the largest in the town. Emanuel was built upon the site of a Dominican monastery, and in the strife between the King and the people became known and marked as a Puritan college. It is of this college, and its companion in the Puritan faith, Sidney Sussex, that Charles I said "They are the nurseries of Puritans." Oliver Cromwell graduated from Sydney Sussex, and the cast of his features taken after his death, of which our own Gore Hall possesses a copy...
...have served the ancients, in time of need, as an excellent sling-shot. Unless you are an infatuated coin-collector, you will not spend much time at this case, but will pass on to other curiosities. On the shelf of a bookcase stands a cast of that grim old Puritan soldier, Oliver Cromwell, from the original mask taken after death and presented to Prof. Charles Eliot Norton by Thomas Carlyle. Next you turn to a glass case which contains many a precious book, whose leaves have been thumbed by men whose names have been household words for centuries. Here...
...first settlers in the town of Cambridge and the founder of the system of public schools which has made New England justly celebrated for educational facilities. Mr. Bridge had once before made the city of Cambridge his debtor by presenting it with a statue of John Bridge, the Puritan scholar, which stands on the Common, and now he must be thanked on behalf of the University for this last gift. The oldest document on the college reads as follows : "New England's first fruits in respect to the College of Cambridge in Massachusetts Bay," and is a long discourse...