tractarian

Whig and Tory, Radical and Conservative, agree, that fire will burn and water suffocate; nay, no tractarian, so far as we know, has ventured to call in question the truths established by Cuvier and La Place.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various

On the other hand, some of the stronger American fictions fail in workmanship; for example, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin, ” which is still vivid and moving long after its tractarian interest has faded; the novels of Frank Norris, a man of great vision and high purpose, who attempted to put national economics into something like an epic of daily bread; and Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick, ” a madly eloquent romance of the sea.

American Literature 1921

It led up to the definitely religious school of children's books, first evangelical, then tractarian, with which we shall deal later: but was itself as a rule utilitarian -- or sentimental -- moral rather than directly religious.

The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

If he had achieved no sort of distinction, Mr. Round had at least given no offence: above all, he had kept clear of all those tractarian innovations which had been finally stamped with the censure of the university two years before.

The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880

But apart from other advantages incidental to the tractarian movement, such as the attention which it was the means of drawing to history and the organic connection between present and past, it had, we repeat, the merit of being an effective protest against what may be called the House of Commons 'view of human life -- a view excellent in its place, but most blighting and dwarfing out of it.

On Compromise John Morley 1880

No one has much less sympathy with the direction of the tractarian revival than the present writer, in whose Oxford days the star of Newman had set, and the sun of Mill had risen in its stead.

On Compromise John Morley 1880

Hooker and Jeremy Taylor, the philosophy of Hobbes and Locke, the commentaries of Blackstone and the ballads of Percy, together with the tractarian writings of Newman, Keble, and Pusey, were all thrown into blank verse and incorporated with the Paradise Lost, the reader would scarcely be much to blame if he failed to appreciate that delectable compound.

Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse Romesh Dutt 1878

This tractarian movement was interrupted by the arrival of Mrs. Mavick.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

This tractarian movement was interrupted by the arrival of Mrs. Mavick.

That Fortune Charles Dudley Warner 1864

It does not have to carry tractarian or overly Anglo Catholic meaning

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