Some estimate of their magnificence and extent may be obtained by means of contemporary inventories.
Some idea can be formed of the immense scope, as well as of the magnificence of its contents, from the early inventories which archæologists of recent years have taken pains to gather together and publish.
Every one who had acquired wealth, or even a modest competence only, displayed a magnificence far beyond his means.
St. Thomas à Becket wore an extraordinary profusion of jewels, and descriptions are preserved of the magnificence of his own person and of his attendants during a progress he once made through the streets of Paris.
Denmark, and though her means did not allow of magnificence or display, she had amply sufficient for her needs, in the quiet and secluded life which her brother wished her to lead.
The houses are not built with the magnificence of those of Lübeck or Brunswick, whose style they resemble, but on a more modest scale.
This mixture of urban magnificence and rural simplicity produces an extraordinary, fantastic effect, which must please the traveller who is in search of something new.
Nothing that French taste and elegance could supply was wanting, and it was a perfect specimen of that costly splendor which in our own day rivals all the gorgeous magnificence of "the Regency.
They who only knew Vienna in its days of splendor and magnificence could scarcely have recognized that city as it appeared on the conclusion of the great revolt which had just convulsed the Empire.
On entering the gateway, he found that the rude magnificence of the inner court amply corresponded with the grandeur of the exterior.
They had no pretensions to magnificence of height, or to romantic shapes, nor did their smooth swelling slopes exhibit either rocks or woods.
In themagnificence of gilded saloons, in the snow-covered street, in the haunts of poverty and vice, always and always that one word was tossed to and fro in every accent of hate and opprobrium.
He had never seen anything like the magnificence of the uniforms of the Emperor's staff.
Sam was struck with the magnificence of the principal buildings, including the palace and the cathedral.
When they had finished, one of the warriors, whom they had noticed before on account of his comparative height and the magnificence of his decorations, came up to them and addressed them, to their great surprise, in Castalian.
Englishmen of that era believed in an earthly Paradise beyond the Atlantic, the wonderful reports of whose magnificence had no doubt a share in lifting the imaginations and hopes of the people to the height at which they now stood.
But long as godlike wish or hope divine Informs my spirit, ne'er can I believe That thismagnificence is wholly thine!
Manie notable monuments are remaining there till this day, testifieng the great magnificence and roiall buildings of that citie in old time.
Further, it belongs to magnificence to produce an external work.
But it is opposed to magnificence on the part of the great work, which the magnificent man intends principally, in so far as when it behooves to spend much, it spends little or nothing.
Magnificence is so called from the great work done, but not from the expenditure being in excess of the work: for this belongs to the vice which is opposed to meanness.
Wherefore, there was need of counsels, rather than of precepts about magnificence and magnanimity.
Therefore magnificence seems to pertain to justice, which is about actions, rather than to fortitude.
Wherefore although magnificence and confidence are referred to the accomplishment of or venturing on any other great things, they have a certain connection with fortitude by reason of the imminent danger.
Now magnificence agrees with fortitude in the point that as fortitude tends to something arduous and difficult, so also does magnificence: wherefore seemingly it is seated, like fortitude, in the irascible.
Holiness and magnificence [Douay: 'Majesty'] in His sanctuary.
Her saddle was of ivory, laid over with goldsmiths' work: her stirrups, her dress, all corresponded with her extreme beauty and the magnificence of her array.
Florence lay beneath them; not with all the magnificencethat the later Medici have given her, but, thanks to the piety of former times, presenting almost as varied an outline to the sky.
The distant views from Skiddaw of the Solway Firth and the Scottish hills are very fine in clear weather; but undoubtedly the wild magnificence of the mountain groups as seen from Helvellyn is incomparable.
Magnificence especially becomes the well-born and the illustrious.
They are not only written with great elegance, and occasionally with magnificence of diction, but with all the becoming dignity of a mind conscious of its superior endowments, and all the authority of a master in philosophy.
With no less magnificence therefore than piety, does Proclus thus speak concerning the ineffable principle of things.
Notwithstanding this praise, however, Plato has been accused, as Longinus informs us, of being frequently hurried away as by a certain Bacchic fury of words to immoderate and unpleasant metaphors, and an allegoric magnificence of diction.
And if the Thought, in this Case, is not sublime, all the Magnificence of Diction is ridiculous Affectation, and mere Bombast.
The former excel in the Greatness and Magnificence of their Sentiments; the latter in the Variety, and passionate Parts of them.
Little need be said about the Machinery, which, among the ancient Heathens, was the Agency of their false Gods, and of Angels and Demons among us Christians; its Beauty and Magnificence being well known.
As to the prior Antiquity of Comedy or Tragedy, History must be our only Guide; for I think it cannot be suppos'd that either of them existed, before Mankind knew what State and Magnificence was.
Apart from the magnificenceof the presents brought to him, it was not unnatural that Hezekiah should regard this embassy with intense satisfaction.
The Lord Bareacres, strutting into the apartment with a haughty air, shrank back, nevertheless, with surprise on beholding the magnificence around him.
Her Belvidera, with its honest, passionate, overwhelming love and truth, was well contrasted with her scorn and magnificence of demeanour in Zara.
The magnificence of its Court was the wonder of foreigners, and the prosperity of its people their admiration.
By his magnificence the clouds run hither and thither.
Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God.
She finished her song on a clear high note, and as she gave it forth, she flung back her head in an impulsive gesture, glorying in an ecstasy of sound, a magnificence of accomplishment.
The magnificence of Ludwigsburg smote her as an insult.
The court of Wirtemberg naturally held aloof from the unlawful magnificence at Tübingen, and her Ladyship of Urach realised that she must form a circle of her own, so she summoned her family from the north.
The boys gazed with wonder upon the relics of a magnificence of which they had before no conception.
The hand of violence had swept away all but the relics of its former magnificence and beauty.
The Court of France had received advices from Madrid, that on the 7th of this month, the States of Spain had with much magnificence acknowledged the Prince of Asturias presumptive heir of the crown.
Letters from Dresden are very particular in the account of the gallantry and magnificence in which that Court has appeared since the arrival of the King of Denmark.
It was with such magnificence that Nero showed the impresario's skill, the politician's adroitness.
Syria unveiled her altars, Persia the mystery and magnificence of her gods.
Caligula had been frankly adored; there was in him an originality, and with it a grandeur and a mad magnificence that enthralled.
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