At the city's apex resided a local elite of merchants and professionals who were proudly middle-class and predominantly Nonconformist. |
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Dr Masters said that these principles were at one time taken for granted by Nonconformist preachers. |
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The, Church of England, it said, is like Christ crucified between two thieves, Papists on one side and Nonconformist sectarians on the other. |
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Thrift and thriftlessness mean the same thing in this town, where I noticed that even Nonconformist chapels, with broken windows, had been left to the rats and birds. |
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A religious census in 1851 revealed Nonconformist comprised about half that of the people who attended church services on Sundays. |
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More broadly, any person who advocated religious liberty was typically called out as Nonconformist. |
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In Scotland, the Presbyterians played a similar role to the Nonconformist Methodists, Baptists and other groups in England and Wales. |
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The Nonconformist conscience was the moralistic influence of the Nonconformist churches in British politics in the 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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N stands for Novel, Night, Newcomer, Noteworthy, Nonconformist. |
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The Nonconformist cause was linked closely to the Whigs, who advocated civil and religious liberty. |
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While Gladstone was a moralistic evangelical inside the Church of England, he had strong support in the Nonconformist community. |
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Nonconformist ministers in their own chapels were allowed to marry couples if a registrar was present. |
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The Revolution led to limited tolerance for Nonconformist Protestants, although it would be some time before they had full political rights. |
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Nonconformist chapels include Buckingham Baptist Chapel and John Wesley's New Room in Broadmead. |
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In Wales in 1850, Nonconformist chapel attendance significantly outnumbered Anglican church attendance. |
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In the new parliament, he opposed legislation restricting the hours of labour, and, as a Nonconformist, spoke against clerical control of national education. |
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Consequently, as a Calvinist and Presbyterian he was now in the unenviable position of being the head of the Church of England, while technically being a Nonconformist. |
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The majority of Nonconformist chapels were built in the 19th century. |
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Following disestablishment in 1920, the Church in Wales initially fared better than the Nonconformist churches, which suffered a decline during the late 20th century. |
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The Tories tended to be in favour of these Acts and so the Nonconformist cause was linked closely to the Whigs, who advocated civil and religious liberty. |
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Parochial libraries attached to Anglican parishes or Nonconformist chapels in Britain emerged in the early 18th century, and prepared the way for local public libraries. |
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Church-building was matched by equally rapid growth of nonconformist chapels. |
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And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. |
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Despite its rather nonconformist looks, the latest Nissan Micra has done exceptionally well and now tops the category with 3,496 sales. |
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His followers believed people were inherently evil and nonconformist thought was a capital punishment. |
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They include a substantial number of international students, and they have a decidedly nonconformist campus culture. |
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When the flower children of the 1960s chose the nonconformist road, many of them traveled in unassuming Volkswagen bugs. |
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His fiercely nonconformist parents, small shopkeepers, brutally opposed and curbed his bent for painting. |
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Under Stalin's tyranny, the doctrine was employed as a pretext for the persecution and silencing of nonconformist writers. |
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Hers is an ambitious and comprehensive philosophy that promises to preserve the institution's nonconformist legacy. |
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The company was founded in 1946 by Peter's father Jack Hudson and is based in a former nonconformist chapel in Shawclough Road. |
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It espoused ideas of the freeborn Englishman resisting the arbitrary powers of his masters and praying in his nonconformist chapel. |
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The defence case was lost but their friendship continued, possibly cemented by links of nonconformist religion and an infectious sense of fun as well as chemistry itself. |
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Membership included Liberal Imperialist MPs, a number of Fabians, Liberal landowners, imperialistically minded journalists, and nonconformist ministers. |
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The nonconformist painter's incompatibility with French colonial life provided Maugham with a pretext to explore the role of the artist in society. |
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A dissident is a nonconformist, a protestor or a rebel who disagrees with the majority view on anything from politics, to religion, to which football team is the best. |
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His nonconformist work is a perfect fit for Valmorbida and Roitfeld, who are rather untraditional art dealers themselves. |
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Even now, half a century after Hadow's lecture, much of this music is still to be heard in parish churches up and down the country and even more in nonconformist chapels. |
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In the take-over of Labour by meretriciousness, its nonconformist traditions, rooted in the world of work, in mutual aid and self-improvement have largely gone. |
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The nonconformist chapels, moral beacons to many in the Victorian heyday, were now suffering from falling membership, declining funds, and diminished authority. |
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Priestley, a nonconformist Presbyterian minister, was supported in his scientific studies by the patronage of the Earl of Shelburne, in whose house Priestley was tutor. |
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That's because the pledge was regarded as a badge of nonconformist pride. |
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Gradually their nonconformist business elites improved public health and evolved traditions of voluntary activity, local pride and artistic patronage. |
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When a servant brought back accounts of sermons from nonconformist meetings, Milton became so sarcastic that the man at last gave up his place. |
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Since 1660, nonconformist Protestants have played a major role in English politics. |
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The nonconformist conscience, as it was called, was repeatedly called upon by Gladstone for support for his moralistic foreign policy. |
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Jimson is a total nonconformist and his god is William Blake, whom he quotes endlessly in his somewhat Joycean interior monologues. |
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He liked less the austere side of the nonconformist Liberal tradition, with its strong temperance movement. |
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The Asquiths were an old Yorkshire family, with a long nonconformist tradition. |
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Some Anglican churches and many of the numerous nonconformist chapels in the county have been converted to residential use. |
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As a result, by the middle of the nineteenth century, Wales was a predominantly a nonconformist country. |
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The Baptists were the most influential of the nonconformist denominations in Aberdare and their development was led by the Rev. |
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The miners' leader, William Abraham, derived support from the newspaper, which was also aligned with radical nonconformist liberalism. |
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Unlike most entrepreneurs, who were nonconformist, he attended the Church of England. |
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She said the nonconformist push for Anglican disestablishment in Wales was not anti-religious. |
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They were one of a number of nonconformist dissenting groups that emerged around this time. |
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The steady pace of secularization picked up faster and faster during the 20th century, until only pockets of nonconformist religiosity remained in Britain. |
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Merthyr was regarded as a nonconformist stronghold in the 19th century, but the chapels declined rapidly from the 1920s onwards and most are now closed. |
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As a result, the nonconformist radical, Henry Richard, was returned as senior member for Merthyr, an important watershed in Welsh political history. |
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I felt no conviction of a burning sincerity, of that fire in the belly which made some of the wilder nonconformist parsons of my youth appear almost incandescent. |
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Darwin's family tradition was nonconformist Unitarianism, while his father and grandfather were freethinkers, and his baptism and boarding school were Church of England. |
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Towards the end of the 19th century, the Lancashire tradition was taken up by sides associated with mills and nonconformist chapels, usually composed of young girls. |
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He came from a prominent nonconformist family from Sheffield. |
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Lloyd George persuaded Kitchener, the Secretary of State for War, to raise a Welsh Division, but not to recognise nonconformist chaplains in the Army. |
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He died in Strudwick's house on the morning of 31 August 1688 and was buried in the tomb belonging to Strudwick in Bunhill Fields nonconformist burial ground in London. |
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At that time the nonconformist group was meeting in St John's church in Bedford under the leadership of former Royalist army officer John Gifford. |
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