Magnanimity Sentence Examples

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

It wants only the magnanimity and refinement.

The conflict of magnanimity between the mother and the daughter, ending in the mother's sacrificing herself and offering her daughter in marriage to her lover, even now agitated the captain, though it was the memory of a distant past.

Showing considerable magnanimity, he promised to grant to each of them half the revenues of the lands in which they were his destined heirs, and a certain number of castles to hold as their own.

Muazim came down from Kabul, and with characteristic magnanimity offered to share the empire with his brother.

His marriage was one of those of which " magnanimity owes no account to prudence," and it did not turn out prosperously.

Aird in the same marvelous dream had used the words, " The silent magnanimity of Nature and her God.

Despite his seniority in rank Bagration, in this contest of magnanimity, took his orders from Barclay, but, having submitted, agreed with him less than ever.

Having similarly explained his views and his magnanimity to Tutolmin, he dispatched that old man also to Petersburg to negotiate.

He conceived it as " a religious monopoly " to which " the nation at large contributes," while " Presbyterians alone receive," and which placed him in " a relation to the state " so " seriously objectionable " as to be " impossible to hold."5 The invidious distinction it drew between Presbyterians on the one hand, and Catholics, Friends, freethinking Christians, unbelievers and Jews on the other, who were compelled to support a ministry they " conscientiously disapproved," offended his always delicate conscience; while possibly the intellectual and ecclesiastical atmosphere of the city proved uncongenial to his liberal magnanimity.

But now, mainly owing to the efforts of Soderini and Machiavelli, the conquerors showed great magnanimity.

His own temper of mind was conservative and somewhat aristocratic, but he guided political development, often under circumstances of great difficulty, with singular fairness and conspicuous magnanimity.

It is also said to his honour that he "never struck at a little man," and that was well; but it is explained as readily by pride and calculation as by magnanimity.

This magnanimity is not a product of modern humanitarianism; it is not a product of anything to do with peace.

Why should the proletariat be called upon to show magnanimity toward the bourgeoisie?

His enemies he treated with the greatest magnanimity; no bloody executions followed the victory of the Milvian Bridge.

The business arena provides the opportunity to practice all the Aristotelian virtues -- including temperance, justice, courage and magnanimity.

He animated the heroes of early Greece with the martial spirit of Roman soldiers and the ideal magnanimity and sagacity of Roman senators, and imparted weight and dignity to the language and verse in which their sentiments and thoughts were expressed.

But neither of them had the magnanimity of this woman.

The latter spared him, and this magnanimity Bonaparte subsequently repaid by death.

This same magnanimity towards the survivors of Saul's house has left its mark upon many of the narratives, and helps to a truer understanding of the stories of his early life.

On no great subject did his principles rise above the commonplace of party, nor had he the magnanimity which excuses rather than aggravates the faults of others.

He was himself carried away by the tone of magnanimity he intended to adopt toward Moscow.

The fragments of Pacuvius quoted by Cicero in illustration or enforcement of his own ethical teaching appeal, by the fortitude, dignity, and magnanimity of the sentiment expressed in them, to what was noblest in the Roman temperament.

The accounts of early writers as to its courage, nobility and magnanimity have led to a reaction, causing some modern authors to accuse it of cowardice and meanness.

With astonishing, and indeed misplaced, magnanimity, Richard pardoned his brother, when he made a grovelling submission, and restored him to his lordship of Ireland and to a great part of his English lands.

Unfortunately, this magnanimity was forthcoming after defeat It appeared as though a virtue had been made of a necessity, and the Boers never regarded it in any other light.

We are sorry not to be able to record any similar trait of magnanimity on Comte's part.

Many of his colleagues bear witness to his generosity and magnanimity, but as a general principle he certainly lacked the wider humanity.

But he showed the magnanimity of his nature by at once admitting Verus as his partner, giving him the tribunician and proconsular powers, and the titles Caesar and Augustus.

But after three months Cassius was assassinated, and his head was brought to Aurelius, who with characteristic magnanimity, persuaded the senate to pardon all the family of Cassius.

They plunder other people's houses, issue false paper money, and worst of all they kill my children and my father, and then talk of rules of war and magnanimity to foes!

If there was none of this magnanimity in war, we should go to war only when it was worth while going to certain death, as now.

We play at magnanimity and all that stuff.