All 10 Uses
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- Let the grandeur of justice shine in his affairs.†
Chpt 1. *grandeur = impressive magnificence
- What a testimony, full of grandeur, full of pity, is borne to the demands of his own nature, by the poor clansman, the poor partisan, who rejoices in the glory of his chief!†
Chpt 1.
- Or, do men desire the more substantial and permanent grandeur of genius?†
Chpt 2.
- If I feel overshadowed and outdone by great neighbors, I can yet love; I can still receive; and he that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves.†
Chpt 2.
- Beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought, and quaint expression are as near to us as to any, and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done by him considering the climate, the soil, the length of the day, the wants of the people, the habit and form of the government, he will create a house in which all these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also.†
Chpt 3.
- What is so great as friendship, let us carry with what grandeur of spirit we can.†
Chpt 4.
- The compliments and ceremonies of our breeding should recall,[425] however remotely, the grandeur of our destiny.†
Chpt 6.
- They have yet to learn that its seeming grandeur is shadowy and relative: it is great by their allowance: its proudest gates will fly open at the approach of their courage and virtue.†
Chpt 6.
- This impoverishes the rich, suffering no grandeur but its own.†
Chpt 6.
- The great man will not be prudent in the popular sense; all his prudence will be so much deduction from his grandeur.†
Chpt 11.
Definitions:
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(1)
(grandeur) impressive magnificence -- usually on a grand (large) scale
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)