Cotton Mather and Salem WitchcraftUniversity Press, 1869 - 63 |
Inne wydania - Wyświetl wszystko
Cotton Mather and Salem Witchcraft (Classic Reprint) William Frederick Poole Podgląd niedostępny - 2015 |
Cotton Mather and Salem Witchcraft (Classic Reprint) William Frederick Poole Podgląd niedostępny - 2017 |
Kluczowe wyrazy i wyrażenia
accused advice afflicted children alleged appear authority believe bewitched Brattle Burroughs Calef's book character charges Charlestown church clergy Coll concerned condemned confession Conscience conviction Cotton Mather courts Devil diabolical agency evidence excitement executed George Burroughs Giles Corey give Goodwin children grave guilty hanged Harvard College Hist historical writers Hutchinson Increase Mather Invisible World John Goodwin judges judicious Lectures letter magistrates Magnalia Margaret Rule Mass MATHER AND SALEM Mather never Mather Papers Mather says Mather's connection Memorable Providences ment neighbors Noyes opinions Parris Peabody Perkins and Bernard Potter's Field pray prayer printed Proctor and Willard prosecutions question quoted reader reality of witchcraft Remarks replied reproach reputation Robert Calef Sadducee Salem delusion Salem proceedings Salem trials Salem Village Salem Witchcraft Sir Matthew Hale spectral evidence spectral testimony spectre spirit statement Stoughton supposed theory things tion truth unto Upham says witchcraft delusion witness woman Wonders writers as Perkins
Popularne fragmenty
Strona 60 - Yea, there were two testimonies, that GB with only putting the forefinger of his right hand, into the muzzle of a heavy gun, a fowlingpiece, of about six or seven foot barrel, did lift up the gun, and hold it out at arm's end; a gun which the deponents, though strong men, could not with both hands lift up, and hold out, at the butt end, as is usual.
Strona 6 - Ever ready to dupe himself, he limited his credulity only by the probable credulity of others. He changes, or omits to repeat, his statements, without acknowledging error, and with a clear intention of conveying false impressions. He is an example how far selfishness, under the form of vanity and ambition, can blind the higher faculties, stupefy the judgment, and dupe consciousness itself.
Strona 16 - Presumptions whereupon persons may be committed, and much more convictions whereupon persons may be condemned as guilty of witchcrafts, ought certainly to be more considerable than barely the accused...
Strona 24 - The children returned to their ordinary behavior, lived to adult age, made profession of religion, and the affliction they had been under they publicly declared to be one motive to it. One of them I knew many years after. She had the character of a very sober virtuous woman, and never made any acknowledgment of fraud in this transaction.
Strona 31 - We judge that, in the prosecution of these and all such witchcrafts, there is need of a very critical and exquisite caution, lest by too much credulity for things received only upon the Devil's authority, there be a door opened for a long train of miserable consequences, and Satan get an advantage over us ; for we should not be ignorant of his devices.
Strona 9 - ... such as would not make use of her physic, that they would never be healed, and accordingly their diseases and hurts continued, with relapse against the ordinary course, and beyond the apprehension of all physicians and surgeons, 4.
Strona 9 - The evidence against her was, 1. that she was found to have such a malignant touch, as many persons, (men, women and children,) whom she stroked or touched with any affection or displeasure or &c. were taken with deafness, or vomiting, or other violent pains or sickness, 2.
Strona 43 - I know not that ever I have advanced any opinion in the matter of witchcraft but what all the ministers of the Lord that I know of in the world, whether English, or Scotch, or French, or Dutch (and I know many), are of the same opinion with me.
Strona 31 - When the first inquiry is made into the circumstances of such as may lie under any just suspicion of witchcrafts, we could wish that there may be admitted as little as is possible of such noise, company, and openness as may too hastily expose them that are examined; and that there may nothing be used as a test for the trial of the suspected, the lawfulness whereof may be doubted among the people of God ; but that the directions given by such judicious writers as Perkins and Bernard be consulted in...
Strona 12 - All these books were in New England, and the conformity between the behavior of Goodwin's children and most of the supposed bewitched at Salem, and the behavior of those in England, is so exact, as to leave no room to doubt the stories had been read by the New England persons themselves, or had been told to them by others who had read them.