Common-School Literature, English And American: With Several Hundred Extracts to Be Memorized
Common-School Literature, English And American: With Several Hundred Extracts to Be Memorized
J Willis James Willis Westlake
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Cotton Mather was one of the most learned and remarka- ble men that New England has ever produced. He was bom in 1663, graduated at Harvard at the age of fifteen, taught for some years, was ordained at twenty-one, and from that time till his death, in 1728, devoted himself with unflagging zeal to preaching and authorship. Like many Other great men of that day, he was a firm believer in witchcraft, and assisted in the persecution of the poor wretches accused of it ; but this was an -error of the... headf not of the heart ; and he was, take him for all and all, one of the greatest and best men of his age. His principal work is a history entitled Magnalia Christi Afnericanay from which we derive much of our knowledge of those times. The most celebrated of his other works are Memor- able Providences Relating, to Witchcraft^ and The Wonders of the Invisible Worlds which is an account of several witch trials. EXTRACT. You are young and have the world before you ; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many a hard thump.* EDWARDS.
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