This made these non-conformist academies in many respects superior to the older Latin grammar schools.
His Tractate on Education (1644) was extensively read, and was influential in shaping educational practice in the non-conformist secondary academies which arose a little later in England.
How do you explain the very small influence exerted on the Latin grammar schools of England by the non-conformist Academies, after they had been absorbed into the existing English non-state system of higher schools?
What will not an episcopal conformist pass away with, if there be no more had against him than the breaking of God’s commandments by open and gross wickedness?
The great Pagan" was the common label among his orthodox or conformist contemporaries.
There is a large measure of enlightenment in both the working and the middle classes; and the ostensible force of orthodoxy among the official and conformist middle class is in many respects illusory.
I was a conformist then; I was still one that morning.
For the direction of the latter, he prepared a series of rules, and especially provided for the reading of the old Puritan and Non-conformist writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
We have shown how the symbolism of the Anglican Church is of the palace and the throne; in the same way that of the non-conformist sects may be shown to be of the counting-house.
The moderate Dissenters were quite as anxious on the subject as any of their conformist friends.
But plainly this was a sin which a Conformist was quite as likely to commit as a Nonconformist.
It is an antithesis against whichconformist dialecticians have always turned their sharpest weapons.
As a thinker he is even to this day treated almost as a personal enemy by scholars of orthodox and conformist minds; defended, idealized and sometimes transformed beyond recognition by various champions of rebellion and the free intellect.
Union Street Chapel was erected, after the repeal of the Non-Conformist Act, in 1698, and for upwards of one hundred years continued in the hands of the Presbyterians.
To serve as an ideology in the Althusserian sense (hiding the discordant, the disagreeable and the ugly while accentuating the concordant, conformist and appealing).
It is ignorant, unethical and unworkable to attempt to impose or promote any kind of exclusive and conformist concept of "the economy".
It is felony, as I have just told you, for a Roman Catholic priest to celebrate a marriage which may be lawfully celebrated by a parochial clergyman, a Presbyterian mini ster, and a Non-conformist minister.
And it is again felony (by yet another law) for a Presbyterian minister and a Non-conformist minister to celebrate a marriage which may be lawfully celebrated by a clergyman of the Established Church.
In religion Emerson was only a nineteenth-century non-conformist instead of a fifteenth or seventeenth century one.
A true non-conformist himself, he had no desire to impose his views on anybody.
Such were the schools where Non-conformist piety received its temper, its edge, and its lustre.
A Non-Conformist clergyman in his earlier life, he seems to have turned in later years to the practice of medicine.
George Gifford was a Church of England clergyman whose Puritan sympathies at length compelled him to identify himself publicly with the non-conformist movement in 1584.
He was a conformist and he felt that the orthodox case needed defence: so he set about to answer the objectors.
We cannot better suggest how radical Scot's position must have seemed to his own time than by showing the point of view of another opponent of witchcraft, George Gifford, a non-conformist clergyman.
It will be remembered that Oliver Heywood, the famous Non-Conformist preacher of Lancashire, believed, though not too implicitly, in witchcraft.
And must not the minds thus contrasted tend to become respectively conformist and nonconformist, not only in politics and religion, but in other things?
It should be remembered that the conformistand non-conformist disputants of the seventeenth century talked as savagely about Fox as the early nineteenth century critics did about Hicks.
The non-conformist desires to deprive the Church of her worldly and political privileges; the churchman talks of the sin of schism, or draws up schemes of reunion which drop still-born.
While the sturdy Non- conformist lay in prison, he was visited by the great woman of the neighborhood, Lady Dunch, of Down Amney.
Conformist and Non-conformist forgot the bitterness of the controversialist, and remembered only the virtues and the piety of the man.
Shadwell himself complains, that, in the days of Charles and James, he "was silenced for a non-conformist poet.
