Sentence:  Why, to be celebrating the mere landing of the Pilgrims—to be trying to make out that this most natural and simple and customary procedure was an extraordinary circumstance—a circumstance to be amazed at, and admired, <WSD>aggrandized</WSD> and glorified, at orgies like this for two hundred and sixty years—hang it, a horse would have known enough to land; a horse ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To make appear great or greater; to exalt.