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The most valuable and important authority which exists upon the history of New England is the work of the Rev. Cotton Mather, entitled Magnalia
American Institutions and Their Influence Alexis de Tocqueville 1832
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Cotton Mather in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin 1748
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Mather in the "Magnalia," [5l] writing twenty years later, gives four points of departure from the Cambridge polity by the Reforming
The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Maria Louise Greene
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Mather, Cotton, list of errata in his "Magnalia," 160.
The Booklover and His Books Harry Lyman Koopman 1898
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He was familiar with the documents -- especially with Mather's "Magnalia," that great source book of New England poetry and romance.
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Copies of the first edition of the "Magnalia" also were issued on large paper and owned in New England, but of course that work was done in London.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Cotton Mather, in his "Magnalia," gives thus the full story of the production of "The Bay Psalm-book": --
Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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His "Magnalia" was printed in England, and the exigences and vicissitudes of publication at that time are fully told in his diary; also the exalted and idealized view which he took of authorship.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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It was a happy hour when he brought home and set up in his book-case Cotton Mather's "Magnalia," in a new edition of two volumes.
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"Magnalia", that storehouse of fact so judiciously combined with fable that the author himself could probably never tell what he had himself seen, and what had been gleaned from others.
Anne Bradstreet and Her Time Helen Campbell 1878
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