On what a great scale he set to work is shown by the connections which he formed, westward and eastward, with the Suebi and the Jazyges, and even with the Parthians.
Cincinnati has been made famous by Mrs Trollope, whose aristocratic feelings were offended by the pork-trade, which is here carried on on a great scale.
His house is a sanctuary, which he does not open to the profane; he is little given to hospitality, or rather he displays it only on rare occasions, and then he does so on a great scale.
Cuthbert Gordon, from whom it derived its name, and was originally manufactured on a great scale by Mr. G.
This apparatus is very convenient either on the small or great scale, for filtering off a clear fluid from a light muddy sediment.
Do we then pronounce war to be plunder upon a great scale?
I have given two examples, and, to render the phenomenon more striking, I have selected international transactions, which are effected on a great scale.
No doubt, in modern societies, spoliation by means of taxation is perpetrated on a great scale.
Nature has adopted it on a great scale, on both flanks of the Alps, and on a smaller, on those of the Adirondacks and of many lower chains.
The kitchen of Canobia was on a great scale, though simple as it was vast.
Lord Marney liked to be surrounded by those who sympathised with his pursuit; and his pursuit was politics, and politics on a great scale.
You must perform the Portuguese scheme on a great scale; quit a petty and exhausted position for a vast and prolific empire.
I conclude from what you said last night, and the interest that you take in the children, that you are something in our way, though on a great scale.
We, too, approaching the subject from a different point of view, have been led to see how desirable it is that self-governing groups of men should be enabled to work together in permanent harmony and on a great scale.
The Abbot's duties included that of entertainment on a great scale.
Still, the overmastering strength of the eleventh century is stamped on a great scale here, not only in the four spans of the nave, and in the transepts, but chiefly in the triumphal columns of the croisee.
A generation that is occupied with making history on a great scale is not likely to busy itself with the history of the past.
The Cypselids at Corinth, and Thrasybulus at Miletus, are instances of tyrants who colonized on a great scale.
It is now generally held, in consequence of evidence furnished by tombs, that the 5th century saw the end of the making of vases on a great scaleat Athens for export to Italy and Sicily.
The revenue thus raised was wholly insufficient for an effort on a great scale; yet the revenues of Athens at this period must have exceeded those of any other state.
He also worked on a great scale, and coloured with effect, united, however, to a delicacy of hand and grace of expression, altogether forming a style that surprises us by its novelty.
Cesare Fiori, indeed, acquired some degree of reputation, several of whose ornamental works on a great scale, have been made public.
Everything shows that it was on a great scale: the large sweep of its enclosing walls, the massive corridors that passed behind the auditorium and of which we can still perfectly take the measure.
The whole place is on a great scale; it was a rich and splendid abbey.
Nature has adopted it on a great scale, on both flanks of the Alps, and on a smaller, on those of the Adirondacks and lower chains, and in this as in many other instances, her processes may often be imitated with advantage.
In fact the very first debut of philosophy on a great scale in Rome was a formal declaration of war against faith and morals.
What we now refer to is the system of slavery on a great scale, which in the Roman state, as formerly in the Carthaginian, grew out of the ascendency of capital.
The capture of Cadiz was only the taking of San Juan de Puerto Rico on a great scale, and the cruises to the Isles were very much like the earl's cruises to the Canaries.
Neither England nor Holland were sufficiently ready for a war on a great scale to be able to dispense with time for preparation.
The smallness of the force left under his command made it impossible for him to undertake operations on a great scale.
Every- thing shows that it was on a great scale: the large sweep of its enclosing walls, the massive corridors that passed behind the auditorium, and of which we can still perfectly take the measure.
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