Most sources hold this to be a coinage of Washington Irving, alluding to "AlmightyGod", although a Philadelphia newspaper also used the phrase at approximately the same time and Ben Jonson had used "almighty gold" in 1616 in Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland.
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