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Some pretended to be Episcopalians, others Presbyterians, and others Nonconformists of all denominations.
At the same time, the disabilities of Nonconformists and Catholics would have been removed.
Nonconformist wrath at the Education Act and Radical disdain continued fierce and enduring.
Here was born a philanthropist, also among the Nonconformist ranks, the late Samuel Morley.
The more important nonconformist churches are fully dealt with under their several headings.
Father, Michael Hennessy Higgins, born in Ireland, was a nonconformist through and through.
His opponents were very willing to acknowledge that he was greatly respected by Nonconformists.
Even the Nonconformists deserted him and preferred persecution to the support of his plans.
He was a Whig and a nonconformist, but more moderate than his brothers in either direction.
Daniel Burgess was succeeded in his chapel by Winter and Bradbury, both celebrated Nonconformists.
The Evangelicals combined to some extent with Nonconformists, and often met on the same platforms.
With this qualification afforded by high legal authorities, some distinguished Nonconformists submitted to the statute.
The Nonconformists at Yarmouth continued their meetings publicly, and in as great numbers as ever.
The Nonconformist conscience was developing its passion for interfering in other people's private concerns.
From the Nonconformist point of view, Peter had very strong claims to be considered Antichrist.
The very insanity of it proves your whole outfit is composed of a bunch of nonconformist weirds.
The nonconformist conscience grows less and less the final court of appeal in matters political.
Under the flashing eye of the prime minister himself the nonconformist revolt reared its crest.
Even now it is said that two-thirds of the nonconformists would have embraced the terms of reunion.
At his side stood Doctor William Bates, one of the most eminent of the Nonconformist divines.
He had always been a nonconformist in his heart; she bore lovingly the yoke of prescribed conduct.
The nonconformists whom adverse winds drove to the North in 1620 were a very different folk.
The existence of nonconformist churches has to be recognized as a fact, though perhaps an unpleasant fact.
Discriminatory measures against nonconformist merchants and traders went into effect, which quickly resulted in their ruin.
Indeed, of all Lyell's nonconformist doctrines, this seemed the one most likely to meet with general acceptance.
A hundred years ago the Nonconformists included most of the wealthy families in the town and neighborhood.
It is thus used in nonconformist churches of the invitation to serve as minister a particular congregation or chapel.
The Court encouraged an approach to the throne of Nonconformists disposed to return thanks for the indulgence.
In common with other nonconformists, he experienced much oppression and great opposition on account of his religion.
Every nonconformist action is immoral, but whether it is thereby good, bad, or indifferent remains another question.
Here he notably enhanced his popularity as a preacher, and became one of the recognized leaders of Nonconformist opinion.
Bunyan may safely be regarded as at that time the most conspicuous of the Nonconformists of the neighborhood.
Cats and Nonconformists seem to me the only things in this world possessed of a practicable working conscience.
Brave, indeed, is the soul that dares to be a nonconformist in regard to the standards "they" have established.
Forster over his great scheme of education, though he thought that some of its provisions bore heavily upon Nonconformists.
Emma, however, had made it her duty to fight against injustice toward the worker and the nonconformist.
His father, a dissenting minister, had seven sons, and educated six of them for the Nonconformist pulpit.
There is no evidence, however, that Presbyterianism as a particular nonconformist sect stirred Phillips to any special antagonism.
It is difficult to measure the precise influence that Priestley exerted; certainly among Nonconformists it cannot have been small.
Nonconformists, for the most part, viewed the application with great dislike, and opposed it tooth and nail.
I do not think it will ever be necessary for me to mention those questions again except to Nonconformist missionaries.
He read Emerson and adopted his philosophy literally and completely: "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."
I am careful to use the term Protestants, as the force available is drawn from the general body of Nonconformists.
The only body of Nonconformists that has kept a careful account of its graveyards is the Society of Friends.
The persecution of Nonconformists continued to depend very much upon the temper of neighbors and the character of magistrates.
In forming his plan he received much help from Price, a nonconformist minister, distinguished as a writer on financial questions.
Afterwards Nonconformists were honored in the common way, and it fell to my lot to reply in a few words.
The balance of the exchange would show the largest debt, the debt of life, due to the Nonconformist side.
She will be greater and stronger still when she enlarges her borders to admit the great bodies of Nonconformists.
For this country its value has been enhanced if not created by the opening of the older Universities to Nonconformists.
It made no response, being a thin nonconformist soul, so I had to leave it, and alone I advanced on the food.
It looks like a nonconformist chapel, a barn of a room with a gallery at the back and a little wooden stage.
She objected to the Nonconformist element as undesirable or unnecessary; and she did not like the introduction of Queen Sabra.
They were nonconformists, and independent enough to take their chances in the new world for the sake of liberty of conscience.
This brief volume awakened an interest in the subject of it in America, and in Scotland, and among the nonconformists of England.
Griswold's volume, and the first name is that of Anne Bradstreet, who proceeded thither with her father, an ardent nonconformist.
No provision of relief for Nonconformists was introduced into the Comprehension Bill, and the measure itself was shortly afterwards dropped.
It was based on a recognition of pleasure felt by Nonconformists, in consequence of passages in his recent charges touching religious union.
In some parts of the country, Nonconformists would not believe that the King intended to depart from his liberal policy.
Of course, so far as conforming to the dictates of fashion in a garden is concerned, I admit that I am a nonconformist.
His intentions were so obvious, that it was impossible for him ever to gain the sincere confidence and regard of the nonconformists.
Serious opposition to the enforcement of the new law arose among nonconformists and others, and coercive measures were taken by the government.
Somewhat more to the point was Richard Baxter, the eminent English nonconformist, who was a contemporary of both of these men.
It is perfectly true that statements are sometimes made in nonconformist pulpits which are bald and offensive to the ear of scholarly accomplishment.
Jesse Glover, a nonconformist minister possessed of a considerable estate, who had left England to settle among his friends in Massachusetts.
The wigs so conspicuous in the portraits of early Nonconformists were the luxurious innovations of the period after the Restoration. Public Worship.
He may regret that all the attempts which have been made to open her gates to large classes of nonconformists should have failed.
There was a drama about the space pilots who fly the nonconformist prisoners to the forests and pulp-acetate plants on Mars.
The tyranny of James, as it had reconciled Tories to Whigs and Churchmen to Nonconformists, had also reconciled the English to the Dutch.
He is prominent in the community and has political ambitions, the attainment of which would be impossible for one of a nonconformist persuasion.
As regards their religion, there was already an immense advance in the spread of the Nonconformist sects and the multiplication of chapels.
All responsible people are complaining of the power and condition of the press, and no people more than these earnest and ethical Nonconformists.
He was himself in favor of secular education, claiming that it was the only logical solution and the only legitimate outcome of Nonconformist principles.
Similar bills had been introduced by Professor Courtney Kenny and other Nonconformists in the two preceding years, but had come to nothing.
All that in a village where more than half the people are Nonconformists, and done upon the mere motion of that particular section of us.
Though the Globe Theater was, in the opinion of Nonconformists, 'the heart of Satan's empire,' Bunyan must yet have known something of Shakespeare.
In large towns, where there were public cemeteries, and in districts where Nonconformists were wealthy, and could purchase private ground, no difficulty arose.
It is as necessary to Protestants as to Catholics and to Nonconformists that they should endeavor to get rid of passion in discussing this question.
All that was done in the nineteenth century was to repeal these Acts, and to throw open the universities and public offices to Nonconformists.
Within two years of the passing of the Conventicle Act of 1670, this and every other penal law against Nonconformists was suspended.
Nonconformists at sea have to lose for the time the ministry of their several churches, but when in port landing parties redress this inequality.
On the other hand, the Nonconformist churches confess annually to a decreasing membership, and Secularist and Ethical societies have but the smallest following.
Fox lived long enough to see a considerable relaxation in the severity of the penal laws against Nonconformists, and the dawn of more peaceful times.
During his life he had met a few other nonconformists, shy, like him, wary of revealing themselves, but something always seemed to happen to them.
I therefore suppose that he was estimating the number of Nonconformists who might be disposed to aid in such an enterprise as Humphrey's 'gardeners' were contemplating.
These laws, however, do not suggest a full idea of all the inconvenience and suffering to which Nonconformists, before the Civil War, had been exposed.
No man among the Nonconformists had had more brilliant reputation before the necessity of differing came upon him, and his personal influence was something phenomenal.
The Nonconformists generally went up and down in Royal favor; lost their privileges and regained them as their help was needed or could be dispensed with.
Against the Independents and the Presbyterians the utmost rigor of the law was enforced; the prisons were filled with nonconformist ministers and their people.
There are numbers of sturdy Nonconformists in Manchester, and doubtless they direct some of their educational warnings against the system represented by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Not a generation has yet passed since the admission of Nonconformists to the Universities; and more than a generation is needed in order to attain the highest culture.
We have heard, that he was a descendant from the early Nonconformists, and he evidently took a great interest in the memorials of their trials and sufferings.
They talked it over among themselves, till they got wrought up to a desire of punishing, once for all, this sometimes amusing, but so often provoking nonconformist.
The first building that strikes the eye is New College, for Nonconformists, a big stone edifice standing on a green lawn behind a row of small trees.
More wonderful than she had known in thinking of them as nonconformists, a disgrace her father had escaped together with the trade he had abandoned in youth.
Bunyan therefore and his fellow Nonconformists were in a position of greater peril, as far as the letter of the law was concerned, than they had ever been.
The Thirty-nine Articles do not admit of his recognizing the orders of his nonconformist brethren as equal to his own, and this has been set down to pride.
The Nonconformists generally agreed in this latter judgment, and frequently compounded for their own sins of omission by speaking and writing against their brethren of the separation.
Nothing could have been further from his desire than to drive nonconformists into a corner, or make them feel that they stood in the way of his more comprehensive enterprise.
This is all, and more than enough; as it is inconceivable that an aristocratic person can have anything to do with Dissent, unless he wants the Nonconformist vote in politics.