The power of our telescopes is wondrously increased by electric and chemical combinations, but this one excelled all others in magnitude and power.
The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance as on the object to be obtained.
Some idea of the magnitude of these works may be formed from the fact that over one million dollars was expended upon the foundations alone, before a brick was laid in the superstructure.
Compared with the enormous losses of life and limb that characterize our war, it is a mere bagatelle; and the magnitude of the prize is to be set off in contrast to the price which it cost.
The attack upon Fort Sumter by the Charleston insurgents at last startled the North, although even then not many seemed to realize the magnitude of the struggle that had begun.
But not yet did he even dream of the nearness and the magnitude of the coming struggle, and the mighty part that he was destined to play therein.
The magnitude of the struggle, the panic that affected some of the troops on the first day, the stern recovery and complete triumph of the second day, all make the event notable in our military annals.
We affirm that Tragedy is the imitation of a perfect and entire action which has a certain magnitude: for there may be a whole without any magnitude whatever.
We cannot estimate with certainty the magnitude of the loss which we have here suffered, but from all appearances it is not extraordinarily great.
This enigmatical work resembles those irrational equations in which a fraction of unknown magnitude always remains, that will in no way admit of solution.
The magnitude of events on land in this period, during which French armies fought a hundred bloody campaigns, overthrew kingdoms, and remade the map of Europe, obscures the importance of the warfare on the sea.
The original grounds of their separation from the Church of England were not objects of a magnitude to dissolve the bonds of communion, much less those of charity, between Christian brethren of the same essential principles.
It is a common amusement of speculative minds to contrast the magnitude of the most important events with the minuteness of their primeval causes, and the records of mankind are full of examples for such contemplations.
I cannot tell what the magnitude of the result might be, for I have not dared to risk the experiment.
I see," said the editor, his eyes glistening as the magnitude of the idea began to appeal more strongly to his imagination.
Election riots of the first magnitude were part of the routine of elections, and the "Bloody Sixth Ward Boys" were notorious for their hooliganism on election day.
Five facts of first magnitude were made obvious to the world by his interpretation of dreams.
He realized that he had by no means appreciated the full magnitude of this work, in fact had never figured on a job anything like this one.
The magnitude of the figures contained therein was getting on Mr. Wylie's nerves.
I am sure, from the magnitude of this inconvenience, that I am not talking merely like an old man.
My life was not worth the magnitude of the effort that it cost me to move; but other lives depended on mine, so I rose up weak and giddy and by degrees induced the rest to start also.
But it required some time before their faculties were sufficiently recovered to allow them duly to estimate the magnitude of the danger they had escaped.
Nor can any one adequately comprehend the mighty agency of the steam-engine, who has not viewed the machinery of some of our mining districts, where it is employed on a scale of magnitude and power unequalled elsewhere.
Nor will the spectator find more cause for astonishment in the magnitude of these engines, than in the order, or even beauty, of every minute part pertaining to them.
Already volumes have been written on the martial achievements of the Scottish nation, and we are fully impressed with the magnitude of our undertaking when, in these brief pages, we propose to illustrate the heroic tale of our ancient glory.
But the very magnitude of these armaments proved their ruin, and but for the spasmodic efforts of the Revolutionary tyrants in the national defence, which achieved marvels, the Revolution must have been crushed at this early stage.
The government is a complicated piece of political machinery, with a constitution, and masses of subtle laws, equal in magnitude to the huge proportions of a Chinese dictionary.
But, though he so effectively reaped where his predecessors had sown, Watt is not the greatest of the inventors of the steam engine, if we rate his standing by the magnitude of the improvement which marked his reconstruction of the engine.
Where, in the very brightest portion of the Galaxy, will we find a part equal in angular magnitude to the moon which affords us the same quantity of light?
Again, there are 309 stars brighter than magnitude 3.
Now it is found that from the first to the sixth magnitude the stars increase in number at the rate of about three and a half times those of the preceding magnitudes.
Now it has been calculated as the result of careful observations, that the total light given by stars down to nine and a half magnitude is one-eightieth of full moonlight, though some make it much more.
Thus the total amount of the light given by all stars down to the tenth magnitude is seventy-four times as great as that from the few first magnitude stars.
According to this scale a sixth magnitude star gives about one-hundredth part of the light of an average first magnitude star.
And in the case of the 99 stars which are brighter than the third magnitude 33 lie upon the Milky Way, or one-third instead of one-seventh.
The relation which one quantity or magnitudehas to another of the same kind.
A fixed star of the first magnitude in the left foot of the constellation Orion.
But peoples fighting for freedom on their native soil could not risk an adventure which only some central power of the first magnitude like France might have conducted with fair prospect of success.
Then she entered as a Power of the first magnitude into the system of purely Italian politics.
But they promised to accomplish master-works of incalculablemagnitude in wider provinces of exploration and investigation.
The gorgeous splendor of the sunset compares in magnitude and in its various moods with the symphony orchestra and its powers.
Every one has felt the magnitude of this rate of casualties because either his home or that of a friend was blighted by one or more of these tragedies in the nineteen months.
If poetry is to be believed, the symphonies of light as rendered by nature in the sunsets, in the aurora borealis, and in other sky-effects of great magnitude have deeply impressed the poet.
This loss is distributed over the entire country and consequently its magnitude is not demonstrated excepting by statistics.
This type has been extended in magnitude to include a 50-kilowatt generator.
Soon after his inauguration he began to realize the magnitude of the struggle and the responsibilities which rested upon him.
Again, my dear general, I do not believe you appreciate the magnitude of the misfortune involved in Lee's escape.
In Normandy we trace the first footings of our national power; the English Sovereign, now a prince of France, ere long on the French soil vied in magnitude of territory with his paramount Lord, the Monarch of France.
This was a burden of magnitude which no single shoulder could have steadily carried, and probably was supported by several besides "the Dreamer.
The genius of this new Machiavel rose with the magnitude of the subject and the singularity of the occasion.
To the knowledge of the Romans the island exceeded in magnitude all other islands; and they looked on this land with pride and anxiety, while they dignified Britain as the "Roman island.
The Gothic mediaeval periods were ages of imagination, when in art works of amazing magnitude were produced, while the artists sent down no claims to posterity.
In the size and magnitude of Britain, confiding to the exaggerated accounts of the captives, he was mistaken; but he acknowledges, that many things he heard of, he had not himself observed.
But it is certainly a striking fact that the earliest literary remains of any magnitude that have come down to us should exhibit a style very far removed from any possible colloquial idiom.
I should study your position, and fix my terms according to the magnitude of the peril from which I rescued you.
It is not the magnitude of a man's income that constitutes affluence, but rather the way in which that income is spent.
To move in the same orbit as this star of the firstmagnitude which would inevitably cast some of its lustre upon him!
