• Arthur Dent (died 1607) was an English Puritan cleric, known as an author and preacher. Dent was born at Melton, Leicestershire. He matriculated as a pensioner...
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    lives. Puritan clergy wrote many spiritual guides to help their parishioners pursue personal piety and sanctification. These included Arthur Dent's The Plain...
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  • acknowledged the work was influenced by a work by Essex minister Arthur Dent (Puritan) titled The Plaine Man's Pathway to Heaven, which was set up as a...
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    The Puritans were originally members of a group of English Protestants seeking "purity", further reforms or even separation from the established church...
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    Lucy Hutchinson (category English Puritans)
    and literary patron Arthur Annesley, earl of Anglesey, repudiating the work and declaring it to be in conflict with her Puritan values. This manuscript...
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    reign of Elizabeth I of England, from 1558 to 1603, saw the start of the Puritan movement in England, its clash with the authorities of the Church of England...
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    in the mid 17th century in the aftermath of the English Civil War. The Puritan-controlled English government had legislated to abolish Christmas, considering...
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  • Knowledge, London, 1919. The staple trades of the empire. Dent, London, 1918. "NEWTON, Professor Arthur Percival (1873-1942)". King's College London Archives...
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    authorship was quickly discovered. Chesterton had been one of the 'Anti-Puritan League' of the 1890s, with Stewart Headlam (who stood bail for Oscar Wilde)...
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  • "Arthur Dent". Adams' biographer M. J. Simpson suggested that the character was almost certainly named after the 17th century puritan writer Arthur Dent...
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  • Woodhose published two books: Woodhouse, A.S.P., ed. (1950) [1938], Puritanism and liberty: being the Army Debates (1647–9) from the Clarke Manuscripts...
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    antipathy and mistrust from Reformed religious groups such as the English Puritans and Scottish Covenanters, who thought his views too Catholic. He supported...
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  • After visiting the local Puritan graveyard with the reverend, Phyllis suspects that Lettie is Lauretta Bishop, a 9-year-old Puritan girl who died in 1694...
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    substance of Arthur Dent's book The Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven under the title, The Poor Man's Family Book. In this way, Arthur Dent of South Shoebury...
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  • Lewis Bayly (category 17th-century English Puritan ministers)
    books which John Bunyan's wife brought with her—the other one being Arthur Dent's Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven (ISBN 1-877611-69-7)—and it was by reading...
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    Batrachomyomachia. He wrote the poem Upon Philip Nye's Thanksgiving Beard about the Puritan Philip Nye and later also mentioned him in Hudibras. His supposed lack...
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  • subjects were John Aylmer, George Gifford and Arthur Dent – not omitting in the article on the last to mention Dent's more familiar 20th-century namesake. Usher...
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    published in 1594, to defend the polity of the Church of England against Puritan objections. It is from the title of this work that the term ecclesiastical...
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    John Bunyan (category 17th-century English Puritans)
    John Bunyan (/ˈbʌnjən/; 1628 – 31 August 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher. He is best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory...
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    Diary of Samuel Pepys. Vol. 1. London: Dent & Sons. —— (1906b) [1669]. Diary of Samuel Pepys. Vol. 2. London: Dent & Sons. Porter, Stephen (January 2007)...
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     398–433. Semonin, Paul (2000). "Chapter 1: The Giant of Claverack in Puritan America". American Monster: How the Nation's First Prehistoric Creature...
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    occasional baseball writer and broadcaster whose congregation dates from Puritan times, he was in a unique position to place the frustration of Red Sox...
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  • J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. Pearson, A.F., Barbarian Piracy and the Saxon Shore; A reappraisal (2005) Plutarch, "Aratus" in Plutarch's Lives, Arthur Hugh Clough...
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    Pionke & Dent 2018, pp. 246, 319. Fielding & Tarr 1976, p. 47. Chandler 1970, pp. 150–151. Cumming 2004, pp. 457–459. Kerry, Pionke & Dent 2018, pp. 4–6...
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    of which were offensive to the Scottish Presbyterians and the English Puritans). His attempt to enforce Anglicanism led to organised rebellion in Scotland...
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    children, his parents were deeply religious and evangelical, from pious Puritan stock. His father moved the family every year or two: Heath, back to Belchertown...
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    Chaplin and Edna Purviance United States A Powder Romance United States Puritan Passions Frank Tuttle Glenn Hunter, Mary Astor, and Osgood Perkins United...
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    Mike Ovey (Ridley Hall/Trinity) Arthur Peacocke (Clare), Templeton Prize winner William Perkins (Christ's), Puritan theologian Sogyal Rinpoche (Trinity)...
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    ongoing debate among scholars. Patrick Collinson argues that an emerging Puritan community was highly suspicious of the fine arts. Edward Chaney argues...
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    this. After public stage performances were banned for 18 years by the Puritan regime, reopening of the theatres in 1660 marked a renaissance of English...
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