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--were they not as other men? It is recorded of Rev. Samuel Whiting, of Lynn, that
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And who can doubt it? Even that extreme type, that highest pinnacle of American Puritanical bigotry,--solemn and learned Cotton Mather,--had, when he was a mourning widower, a most amusing amorous episode with a rather doubtful, a decidedly shady, young Boston woman, whom he styled an
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Ingenious Child, but who was far from being an ingenuous child.
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She, as he proudly stated,
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And a very handsome and thoroughly attractive person does his portrait show even to modern eyes. Poor Cotton resisted the wiles of the devil in this alluring form, though he had to fast and pray three consecutive nights ere the strong Puritan spirit conquered the weak flesh, and he could consent and resolve to give up the thought of marrying the siren. His self-denial and firmness deserved a better reward than the very trying matrimonial
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A woman worthy to be the wife of a priest, was keenly epigrammatic; and ample proof of the wise insight of the standard of comparison may be found in the lives of