Palfrey
Cited as Palfrey. — 34 quotations
Absolutism
The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling.
Blank
The freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank.
Brand
Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof.
Bridge
Their simple engineering bridged with felled trees the streams which could not be forded.
Bystander
He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them.
Chartered
The sufficiency of chartered rights.
Clash
However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent colony.
Compatriot
The distrust with which they felt themselves to be regarded by their compatriots in America.
Complication
Through and beyond these dark complications of the present, the New England founders looked to the great necessities of future times.
Confederation
This was no less than a political confederation of the colonies of New England.
Cripple
More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay.
Degrade
Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar.
Disadvantage
Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvantage.
Disfranchisement
Sentenced first to dismission from the court, and then to disfranchisement and expulsion from the colony.
Economic
There was no economical distress in England to prompt the enterprises of colonization.
Enforcement
Enforcement of strict military discipline.
Expatriation
Expatriation was a heavy ransom to pay for the rights of their minds and souls.
Flagrant
A war the most powerful of the native tribes was flagrant.
Gantlet
Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights.
Heartburning
The transaction did not fail to leave heartburnings.
Hill
Showing them how to plant and hill it.
Impracticable
Patriotic but loyal men went away disgusted afresh with the impracticable arrogance of a sovereign.
Optional
If to the former the movement was not optional, it was the same that the latter chose when it was optional.
Post
He held office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years.
Propose
I propose to relate, in several volumes, the history of the people of New England.
Provision
They were provisioned for a journey.
Religionist
The chief actors on one side were, and were to be, the Puritan religionists.
Scripturist
The Puritan was a Scripturist, -- a Scripturist with all his heart, if as yet with imperfect intelligence . . . he cherished the scheme of looking to the Word of God as his sole and universal directory.
Selectman
The system of delegated town action was then, perhaps, the same which was defined in an “order made in 1635 by the inhabitants of Charlestown at a full meeting for the government of the town, by selectmen;” the name presently extended throughout New England to municipal governors.
Stagnant
For him a stagnant life was not worth living.
Technicality
The technicalities of the sect.
Tone
The best method for the purpose in hand was to employ some one of a character and position suited to get possession of their confidence, and then use it to tone down their religious strictures.
Truck
A master of a ship, who deceived them under color of trucking with them.
Vacation
It was not in his nature, however, at least till years had chastened it, to take any vacation from controversy.