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... evidence is scanty , we can also examine the ma- terial on which biographers hang Mather's character , and we can gain some insight into the procedure by which a historical figure may be condemned ( ex post facto ) to a repulsive ...
... evidence is scanty , we can also examine the ma- terial on which biographers hang Mather's character , and we can gain some insight into the procedure by which a historical figure may be condemned ( ex post facto ) to a repulsive ...
Page 45
... evidence of similar incidents at Har- vard College . Will not this damaging circumstance force us to see a pattern of objectionable behavior ? Actually , the Harvard inci- dents have been the crucial ones in the portrayal of Mather's ...
... evidence of similar incidents at Har- vard College . Will not this damaging circumstance force us to see a pattern of objectionable behavior ? Actually , the Harvard inci- dents have been the crucial ones in the portrayal of Mather's ...
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... evidence " in the actual trials . This was evidence that a specter , or shape , or apparition , representing Goodman Proctor , for instance , had tormented the witness or had been present at a witches ' meeting . Hawthorne knew that ...
... evidence " in the actual trials . This was evidence that a specter , or shape , or apparition , representing Goodman Proctor , for instance , had tormented the witness or had been present at a witches ' meeting . Hawthorne knew that ...
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