Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from Its First Planting, in the Year 1620, Unto the Year of Our Lord 1698 ...S. Andrus & son, 1855 |
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... writer's composition a model for his own . Still , he falls considerably short of Fuller in his attempts at witty ... writing his great work , that " he had no ques- tion but there would be some with hearts full of serpent and venom ...
... writer's composition a model for his own . Still , he falls considerably short of Fuller in his attempts at witty ... writing his great work , that " he had no ques- tion but there would be some with hearts full of serpent and venom ...
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... writers of our own time , equally obnoxious to the same plain kind of logic ; and a late writer , of very good standing , has with great apparent deliberation said , that " it is impossible to deny , that the reputation of Cotton Mather ...
... writers of our own time , equally obnoxious to the same plain kind of logic ; and a late writer , of very good standing , has with great apparent deliberation said , that " it is impossible to deny , that the reputation of Cotton Mather ...
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... writer , one might ride from Boston , in a single day , with a very moderate horse , into a New England town where the belief in witch- craft was very general , and where many an old horse - shoe could have been seen nailed to half the ...
... writer , one might ride from Boston , in a single day , with a very moderate horse , into a New England town where the belief in witch- craft was very general , and where many an old horse - shoe could have been seen nailed to half the ...
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... writing to Samuel Mather , son of Cotton , he thus alludes to it in his happy style : " When I was a boy , I met ... writer's hands , is given in its author's own words : " You mention being in your seventy - eighth year ; I am in my ...
... writing to Samuel Mather , son of Cotton , he thus alludes to it in his happy style : " When I was a boy , I met ... writer's hands , is given in its author's own words : " You mention being in your seventy - eighth year ; I am in my ...
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... writers of that day . They seem peculiarly odd in our times , but by another hundred and fifty years they may be viewed as something more than odd . Having a few others at hand , I will throw them in here as curiosities of those days ...
... writers of that day . They seem peculiarly odd in our times , but by another hundred and fifty years they may be viewed as something more than odd . Having a few others at hand , I will throw them in here as curiosities of those days ...
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