Show TI THE PUR ITANS macaulay Maca ulav and bancroft have hive each charac the Pt iritani in a brilliant and descriptive passage macarilay Macai macal ilay in his youthful essay on an milt milton mllton a and n d bancroft in his history of the united ft t e 9 11 Macau lays laya sketch is striking but bui too gor geons and reth orical to be strict strictly ir 1 truie irne bancroft li sketch haa baa less leb of forced Is more sober in color and perhaps jailer in sentiment bilt but it iid ild lid did not exhaust the bub sub subject jert and POW mr air palfrey in his history of nev new rn england I 1 n d has faken taken it up ea it in a broader broat fer basis is of historical re ile he is alin alii more careful in the selection aad and combination of tou touches ches ebes and as he does not write from his big imagination but frodl frodi the actual facts facca of history no doubt he is mori morg more faithful in the reproduction of the oriz original inal inai mr air palfrey writes N Y eveking post poet in tica lica cs the pui put puritan itan vvhs waa was the liberal of b hla hia 3 day if it be he construed bis big duties to god in th the e spirit of a narrow interpretation that punctilious sense of religious responsibility impelled himm hira to limit the assumptions of human man government in no stress I 1 in no delirium of at politics could a puritan have been brought to teach that for either public or private conduct there is some lav law of man above the law of god G od penetrated with the opposite condic tion tiou be found himself enforced at last to overact the stuart throne service which he believed the authority to claim he saw himself forbidden by human authority to pay that issue presented to him bim made mada him in pol poli bitica itice a casuist an innovator the architect of a naw system from the time when the problem with aich which for a while he struggled was worked out governments govern lovern menta batih brace hrace race were to rest on the public consent and to be administered for the public benefit sich such was wae ibe the brightness of the a light sight i to vi which bich he niad mad ais als wiy through many s scenes ce rles ties of darkness i when n after the restoration of the line an unbridled licentiousness of manner had succeeded to his big atio atiA austerity erity when villen an orate beastliness was the fashion of the men and women in high places and such writers as Vy cherley and arid Mrs Behn expressed and formed the morals of so many clamorous for lord Claron Claren dons creed the ribald wits of the time so grossly marred the record of the puritan ahat that it is difficult even for those abo thise with his views in religion and politics to recover a wt just conception of his bis dignified and manly ch character fracter ar acter as it existed in the udys which must be referred to for a true delineation nor has this been wholly holly A the result of injustice on or the part of writers depicting what shat they wanted the moral capacity to estimate with justness the character had bad itself degenerated in reaching the time when it came tinder under their observation puritanism from the outbreak of the great rebellion was subjected to the in felicities and abuses which necessarily attend a formidable and successful party when it clothed itself with the associations of power and arid grandeur vulgar men without being sordid or ambitious followed its modes and by their vulgarity exaggerated exaggerate and degraded them ahei it came to have honors and fortunes to bestow base men attached d themselves selves to it for the promotion of their base ends and the excesses of the dishonest prete n der brought into discredit and ridicule the practices of the sincere devotee B but ut whatever may have taken place later the be pui put of the first forty years of the ine seventeenth century was not tainted with ith degrading or ungraceful associations of any sort the rank the eaith eai wealth eal tb the chol choi alry the genius the ibe learning the accomplishments the social refinements rid ild lid nd elegance of the time lime were largely represented in its ranks not to speak of scotland where soon puritanism had bad few opponents in the class of the highborn and the educated ibe the severity of elizabeth scarcely restrained in her latter day sits predominance among the most exalted order of her subjects the earls ot of leicester bedford huntington and warwick sir nicholas bacon his great er son burleigh Mild noay knollys were specimens of a host of eminent men more or less friendly to or tole toie tolerant of it throughout the reign of james the firsti first it controlled the house of commons comp composed oiled chiefly of the landed gentry of the kingdom and if it had bad less sway among the peers this was partly because the number of lay nobles did hot liot largely exceed that of the bishops who were mostly creatures of the crown the a ag property of that puritan house of commons whose dissolution bas baa been just now related vt as computed to be three times as great as that of the lords the statesmen of the first period of that parliament which by and hy by dethroner dethroned charles the first had been bred in the luxury of the landed aristocracy of the realm ahil of the nobility manchester essex warwick brooke brookey fairfax and other others abd of the gentry a long roll of men of the scarcely inferior position of hampden and waller commanded and officered its armies and fleets A puritan was the th first protestant founder of a college at an english university among the clergy representing mainly the scholarship of the countr country y nothing 11 is more inco incontrovertible than khan th that at the permanent of puritanism was only prevented by the seventies enties biot of the governments of elizabeth and her scottish kinsmen wrider the several administrations of parker whitgift Whit gift bancroft and laud 1 it may be easily believed that nore of the guests whom the earl of lai Lei leicester ceser er placed at his big table by the side of his big nephew S r philip sydney were clowns but cot the supposition of any necessary connection between puritanism and what hat is harsh and anti rude in taste and manners bersy will not even stand the tue test of an observation D of the character of roer met who figured in its ranks when ibe the lines clime to be most dle diar r drawn the parliamentary ge general devereux earl of eidex was way thaw ihas no raight straight faced go speller but a man formed with evers every grace of person mind mina and culture to be the ornament of a splendid court the ibe mod model PI kni kli knight bt the idol as long aa he kris irig was wag the comrade of the royal bold sold soldiery lery iery the be bayard of tire tiye times the position of manchester r and fairfax of or hollis fiennes wa was by birthright in the most n ost polished circle of english engligh society in the memoirs of the kounz regicide colonel hutchinson Huchin soi recorded record raby rdby by his big beautiful aiki arid gentle wife w wo may inay look at the interior of a puritan iou lou and see its gra gna graceb graces ee divine and human as they shone with a naturally bl blinded lustre in the most strenuous and most afflicted times the renown of english learning owes something to the sect which enrolled the names of seldon Light lightfoot foor gale and owen its seriousness and depth of thought had lent their inspiration to the delicate guge ouse mure muse of spencer judging between their colleague preachers erasers and hooker the critical Tem tempers Temp pars larb lars awarded the palm of scholarly eloquence to the he puritan when the pil puritan ritan lawver lawyer white lock loc loe wab was ambassador to queen Chi christina latina he kapta magnificent state which was the adini admi atlon of her court perplexed as they were by his persistent puritanical testimony against he practice of drinking heaths deaths heat hs for his bis latin secretary the puritan protector employed a man at once equal to the foremost of mankind in genius genitis and learning and skilled in all manly exercises proficient in the lighter accomplishments b yond any other englishman of his bavand carr essed in his youth in france and italy for eminence in the studies of their fastidious scholars and artists the kin kings kins s camp and court at oxford had not a better or amateur musician than ihan john mitoi and his bis portraits exhibit him with locks as flowing as prince in in such trillis as 4 the gon lon of ataro attro apparel 1 the ibe usage oi or me best modern society vindicates ates in characteristic particulars the roundhead roundhead judgment and taste of the century before the last the english gentleman now as the puritan gentleman then dresses plainly in joad foad bad sad colors I 1 and puts his bis lace and embroidery on on his servants |