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Перевод: puritanism

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1. Instead of profiting from the enormous interest in gambling on football results through the "pools" system, the FA's puritanism led to a futile and absurd confrontation in 1936, which involved the withholding of fixture lists to frustrate the pools companies.
2. Over a hundred years ago, one of Baxter's biographers wrote, "It is impossible to doubt that Puritanism produced the freedom, strength and activity of modern British and American life.
3. It was the Restoration period, following the austerity of Puritanism, and crowds flocked to see "Winstanley's Wonders".
4. During the course of the seventeenth century, despite the reaction against puritanism which followed the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, this point of view became increasingly influential, so that by the end of the century it had come to be generally accepted.
5. For those raised in the prudery of puritanism or the celibacy-conscious preoccupations of Catholicism this ran against the grain.
6. Beecher, the paterfamilias of the well known family, had been one of the major liberalizing influences in American Puritanism (despite his rabid anti-Catholic feelings) and had helped to transform the old High Calvinism into the broader stream of liberal protestantism.
7. I admire the Puritan and Puritanism; and so far, my maidenly debauchery of habit still leaves me a Puritan in life.
8. It culminated in the sabbatarian excesses of English and Scottish Puritanism and the Sunday legislation, much of which has been relaxed since the First World War.
9. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the product of a Boston culture based on Puritanism, reflected on these changes after an 1886 visit to England.
10. Some historians minimise the importance of theology, and play down the role of Puritanism in early modern England.
11. Ribald measures of organisational capacity in relation to breweries spring to mind; let it be noted that Dorchester ran its municipal brewhouse efficiently and profitably in the great days of Puritanism, but not thereafter.
12. This is probably the reason for its universal acceptance as something to be cherished, and for its survival despite all religious disapproval which from time to time has endeavoured to denigrate it, as did for example, some of the teachings of Puritanism.
13. The disapproving proscriptions of puritanism could not have squeezed all impropriety from the area.