self-glorifications

Updated: May 8, 2025

Yet Cotton Mather scrupled not to put in operation these and other devices; to hound on the magistrates, to browbeat and sophisticate the juries, and to scream threats, warnings and self-glorifications from the pulpit. Needs must, when the devil drives.

Julian Hawthorne - The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 : From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775