Major Writers of America, Volume 1Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 Selections from the writings of fifteen important American authors, including portions of novels, short stories, prose and poems. |
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... Mathers ( both Increase and his son Cotton ) , when one finds Sewall writing of his old friend , " I have heard him preach a sermon at the Old South [ Church of Boston ] , upon short warning , which , as the phrase in England is , might ...
... Mathers ( both Increase and his son Cotton ) , when one finds Sewall writing of his old friend , " I have heard him preach a sermon at the Old South [ Church of Boston ] , upon short warning , which , as the phrase in England is , might ...
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... Cotton , as his grandson and namesake Cotton Mather notes in the Mag- nalia Christi Americana , was at his books twelve hours a day . In the next century , Jona- than Edwards , Samuel Hopkins , and Timothy Dwight were at their books yet ...
... Cotton , as his grandson and namesake Cotton Mather notes in the Mag- nalia Christi Americana , was at his books twelve hours a day . In the next century , Jona- than Edwards , Samuel Hopkins , and Timothy Dwight were at their books yet ...
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... Cotton Mather's His- tory of Witchcraft , a New England Almanac , and a book of dreams and fortune - telling ; in which last was a sheet of foolscap much scribbled and blotted in several fruitless attempts to make a copy of verses in ...
... Cotton Mather's His- tory of Witchcraft , a New England Almanac , and a book of dreams and fortune - telling ; in which last was a sheet of foolscap much scribbled and blotted in several fruitless attempts to make a copy of verses in ...
Contents
WILLIAM BRADFORD | 3 |
My Father and Your Father To | 4 |
Introduction | 10 |
Copyright | |
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