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Page 25
... gives too much credence and too national a signifi- cance to the type of the dispossessed New Englander as that ... give the reader a convincing sense of what the relationship between immigrant and native American must have been ...
... gives too much credence and too national a signifi- cance to the type of the dispossessed New Englander as that ... give the reader a convincing sense of what the relationship between immigrant and native American must have been ...
Page 45
... give the correct date of 1674 fail to attach any special significance to the time . Mather was only eleven when he went to Harvard , and I suspect that the date is extremely important to the reconstruction of a plausible and just ...
... give the correct date of 1674 fail to attach any special significance to the time . Mather was only eleven when he went to Harvard , and I suspect that the date is extremely important to the reconstruction of a plausible and just ...
Page 73
... give this theoretical groundwork any important place in the narrative of his life . He mentions that he read John Locke at a certain point , and the Earl of Shaftesbury , and he says that this sort of education is extremely valuable ...
... give this theoretical groundwork any important place in the narrative of his life . He mentions that he read John Locke at a certain point , and the Earl of Shaftesbury , and he says that this sort of education is extremely valuable ...
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