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... Cotton Mather remains a puzzling character whose strange personality has been oddly fashioned by some of our leading writers . Even some of those who have fought most intelligently to rescue the seventeenth - century ... Cotton Mather 35.
... Cotton Mather remains a puzzling character whose strange personality has been oddly fashioned by some of our leading writers . Even some of those who have fought most intelligently to rescue the seventeenth - century ... Cotton Mather 35.
Page 50
... [ Cotton ] and his mother into my study . Wee prayed together and with many Tears beweyled our sinfulness , and begged of God mercy in this particular , and solemnly gave the ... Cotton Mather's name 50 IN DEFENSE OF HISTORICAL LITERATURE.
... [ Cotton ] and his mother into my study . Wee prayed together and with many Tears beweyled our sinfulness , and begged of God mercy in this particular , and solemnly gave the ... Cotton Mather's name 50 IN DEFENSE OF HISTORICAL LITERATURE.
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... Mather rode out to Cambridge on the twenty- sixth of July , he was undoubtedly angry , but we have no evi- dence that his threat to take his son out of college once again had anything ... Cotton Mather had been The Hazing of Cotton Mather 55.
... Mather rode out to Cambridge on the twenty- sixth of July , he was undoubtedly angry , but we have no evi- dence that his threat to take his son out of college once again had anything ... Cotton Mather had been The Hazing of Cotton Mather 55.
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