magnanimity

• “-- This is what you call magnanimity -- It is happy for yourself, that you possess this quality in the highest degree.”

  Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

• “Mr. Churchill, whose magnanimity is as great as his power of mischief, half rose to his feet, and murmured, with a bow of his head, "If I am not unworthy, Sir.”

  What Is The British Point of View

• “Tish it was, however, who, not to be outdone in magnanimity, permitted them to go, one by one, to the stream to wash.”

  Tish

• “This treating of injuries from the high ground of magnanimity is the action that shall save the world.”

  Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910

• “There was a certain magnanimity, he recognized, in Gay's effort to put things right even while he must have preferred in his heart to have them remain in the wrong.”

  The Miller of Old Church

• “Surely I do not wish to stand beneath Helga in magnanimity!”

  The Girl from the Marsh Croft

• “Even Napoleon's father-in-law, the Emperor of Austria, who had given his daughter in marriage to the arbiter of Europe, did not deign to reply, though only a brief time before he had received many tokens of magnanimity from the French Emperor.”

  The Tragedy of St. Helena

• “These principles, bravest of men, might have suited the simple ages of Greece and Rome; a Phocion or a Fabricius might have uttered the like, and compelled the homage of their enemies; but in these days, such magnanimity is considered frenzy, and ruin is its consequence.”

  The Scottish Chiefs

• “The Christian woman who can reflect upon a laborious life of domestic duty, looks back upon a scene of true virtue; and if, in order to perform the whole of her allotted task, she was obliged to repress a taste for pursuits more intellectual, the character of magnanimity is inscribed upon her conduct, however retired, or in human estimation insignificant, may have been the daily exercises to which she was appointed.”

  Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor

• “Caroline heard it she could not help smiling at the word magnanimity, which sounded to her rather too grand for the occasion.”

  Tales and Novels — Volume 07

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