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Page iii
... humour which transported the 17th century is lost to us , who do not know the sour solemnity - the sullen superstition - the gloomy moroseness - and the stubborn scruples of the ancient Puritans . We have never ADVERTISEMENT .
... humour which transported the 17th century is lost to us , who do not know the sour solemnity - the sullen superstition - the gloomy moroseness - and the stubborn scruples of the ancient Puritans . We have never ADVERTISEMENT .
Page iv
A Poem Samuel Butler. stubborn scruples of the ancient Puritans . We have never been witnesses of animosities excited ... Puritan who was alive in my childhood , being at one of the feasts of the church invited by a neighbour to ...
A Poem Samuel Butler. stubborn scruples of the ancient Puritans . We have never been witnesses of animosities excited ... Puritan who was alive in my childhood , being at one of the feasts of the church invited by a neighbour to ...
Page xx
... Puritans ; or if we knew them , derive our information only from books or from tradition , have never had them before our eyes , and cannot but by recollection and study understand the lines in which they are satirized . It is scarcely ...
... Puritans ; or if we knew them , derive our information only from books or from tradition , have never had them before our eyes , and cannot but by recollection and study understand the lines in which they are satirized . It is scarcely ...
Page xxi
... Puritans , his tenderness towards the Roman Catholics , and his vanity and self - importance . Instead of that admiration with which he hoped to inspire his audience , he met with little else than disapprobation and contempt . The ...
... Puritans , his tenderness towards the Roman Catholics , and his vanity and self - importance . Instead of that admiration with which he hoped to inspire his audience , he met with little else than disapprobation and contempt . The ...
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... Puritans . The Scotch Presbyterians had thwarted him on many occasions ; they had treated his person with indecent familiarity , and his power with disrespect ; and the republican spirit by which they were animated could not but be ...
... Puritans . The Scotch Presbyterians had thwarted him on many occasions ; they had treated his person with indecent familiarity , and his power with disrespect ; and the republican spirit by which they were animated could not but be ...
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