Mather, Cotton
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Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, and other eminent ministers cautioned against the misuse of evidence but warned authorities to take the charges seriously.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Mather, Cotton, 138, 239; his “Magnalia,” mentioned, 149.
From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
Mather, Cotton, quoted, upon the Franklins, 301, 302.
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James
Mather, Cotton, “Essay to do good,” read by Franklin, 132; library of, 20.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore
Mather, Cotton: his Magnalia, 5-7; on Concord discord, 57; on New England Melancholy, 216; a borrower, 381.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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