Cant terms or nicknames
"This artifice of affixing a name of reproach on those of an opposite party, in order indiscriminately to subject them to hatred or ridicule could hardly better be exposed [...] It is the artifice of the favourers of the catholic and of the prelatical party to call all who are sticklers for the constitution in church or state, or would square their actions by any rule, human or divine, Puritains.
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it would not be so excusable if in this country we should suffer cant terms or nicknames to pass for reasoning or proof."
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson
Labels: English Civil war, female authors, puritains
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