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Rossell Hope Robbins. Cotton Mather ( 1662-1728 ) " Witchcraft is the most nefarious high treason against the Majesty on high . A witch is not to be endured in heaven or on earth . " - Cotton Mather . tion of Mather's concept of witches ...
Rossell Hope Robbins. Cotton Mather ( 1662-1728 ) " Witchcraft is the most nefarious high treason against the Majesty on high . A witch is not to be endured in heaven or on earth . " - Cotton Mather . tion of Mather's concept of witches ...
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... Cotton Mather ; several times he was passed over for the presidency of Harvard . Finally , in 1721 , embittered by ... Mather's later years , although he still poured forth new writings , were filled with personal mis . fortune . He was ...
... Cotton Mather ; several times he was passed over for the presidency of Harvard . Finally , in 1721 , embittered by ... Mather's later years , although he still poured forth new writings , were filled with personal mis . fortune . He was ...
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... Cotton Mather called his adversary Robert Calef's work on witch- craft an " abominable bundle of lies , writ- ten on ... Mather's ac- count of the alleged diabolical possession of Margaret Rule , who , after a period of depression , had ...
... Cotton Mather called his adversary Robert Calef's work on witch- craft an " abominable bundle of lies , writ- ten on ... Mather's ac- count of the alleged diabolical possession of Margaret Rule , who , after a period of depression , had ...
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