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present the pageant of New England's history

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kjc0123 | 07:47 Wed 10th Nov 2004 | Phrases & Sayings
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What is the meaning of "present the pageant of New England's history" in the following sentence?

A famous Puritan minister, the Reverend Cotton Mather, wrote some 400 works. His masterpiece, Magnalia Christi Americana, presented the pageant of New England's history.

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A pageant is a dramatic presentation or a series of pictures connected with a subject. The 'subject' here is New England's history and Cotton Mather's writings were designed to reveal that history to the reader. That is, he used words to draw a picture of the parade of history.

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