 Mather is named Cotton Mather. What a name! But, my hearers, I confess I am wrong — I should have said, what names ! I shall say nothing of his reverend father, since I dare not praise him to his face ; but should he resemble and represent his venerable...  The Library of American Biography - Page 173by Jared Sparks - 1836Full view - About this book
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1836 - 580 pages
...not praise him to his face ; but should he resemble and represent his venerable grandfathers, John Cotton and Richard Mather, in piety, learning, elegance...mind, solid judgment, prudence, and wisdom, he will hear away the palm ; and I trust that in this youth, Cotton and Mather will be united and flourish... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1840 - 568 pages
...not praise him to his face ; but should he represent and resemble his venerable grandfathers, John Cotton and Richard Mather, in piety, learning, elegance...he will bear away the palm ; and I trust, that in him Cotton and Mather will be united and flourish again." * In this manner prophetically ushered into... | |
 | Theology - 1842 - 514 pages
...not praise him to his face ; but should he resemble and represent his venerable grandfathers, John Cotton and Richard Mather, in piety, learning, elegance...judgment, prudence and wisdom, he will bear away the palm. Jlnd I trust that, in this youth, Cotton and Mather will be united and flourish again." The wonder... | |
 | Theology - 1842 - 514 pages
...not praise him to his face ; but should he resemble and represent his venerable grandfathers, John Cotton and Richard Mather, in piety, learning, elegance of mind, solid judgment, prudence and wisdom, he mil bear away the palm. And I trust that, in this youth, Cotton and Mather will be united and flourish... | |
 | Religion - 1842 - 1046 pages
...not praise him to his face ; but should he resemble and represent his venerable grandfathers, John Cotton and Richard Mather, in piety, learning, elegance of mind, solid judgment, prudence and wisdom, Ac will bear away the palm. jJnd I trust thai, in this youth, Cotton and Mather will be united and... | |
 | Enoch Pond - 1844 - 192 pages
...learning than taste; a * " Cotton Mather! What a name ! Or, I should rather have said, what names ! I trust that in this youth, Cotton and Mather will be united, and again flourish." greater facility for acquiring knowledge, than skill in arranging and employing it.... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1855 - 690 pages
...resemble his venerable grandfathers, JOHN Соттох and RiriuHD MATHER,* in piety, learning, and + him (.'OTTOS and MATHER will be united and flourish apiin." !n his eighteenth year he was invited to... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - Baptists - 1857 - 766 pages
...not praise him to his face ; but should he resemble and represent his venerable grandfathers, John Cotton and Richard Mather, in piety, learning, elegance...Cotton and Mather will be united and flourish again." Cotton Mather received his second degree from the hand of his father ; and the thesis which he maintained... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - Baptists - 1857 - 770 pages
...his face ; but should he resemble and represent his venerable grandfathers, John Cotton and Kichard Mather, in piety, learning, elegance of mind, solid...Cotton and Mather will be united and flourish again." Cotton Mather received his second degree from the hand of his father ; and the thesis which he maintained... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - Baptists - 1857 - 764 pages
...grandfathers, John Cotton and Riehard Mather, in piety, learning, eleganee of luind, solid judgment, prudenee and wisdom, he will bear away the palm ; and I trust...Cotton and Mather will be united and flourish again." Cotton Mather reeeived his seeond degree from the hand of his father ; and the thesis whieh he maintained... | |
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