It was all in its glory about the time when Thomas-à-Becket, the Magnificent, used to entertain great companies of belted knights of the realm in a manner that exceeded regal munificence in those dayseven directing fresh straw to be laid for them on his ample mansion floor, that they might not soil the bravery of their dresses when they bunked down for the night.

Previous speakers had, naturally, appealed to the pious munificence of Churchmen.

He is one of the few Americans who have inherited large property from their parents, and he has contributed to this cause with princely munificence.

I have already noticed, that these pecuniary benefactions were not held so degrading in that age as at present; and, probably, many of Dryden's opulent and noble friends, took, like Dorset, occasional opportunities of supplying wants, which neither royal munificence, nor the favour of the public, now enabled the poet fully to provide for.

Such, then, for its purpose and its uniform motive, was the sagacious munificence of Caesar.

He was no fair-weather friend, but shares with Charles Lamb the honour of being able to unite narrow means and splendid munificence.

Hodgson, Moore, Bland, Thomas Ashe, the family of Lord Falkland, the British Consul at Venice, and a host of others, were ready to testify to his superb munificence.

In connexion with this subject of his extraordinary munificence, there is one aspect of Caesar's life which has suffered much from the misrepresentations of historians, and that isthe vast pecuniary embarrassments under which he laboured, until the profits of war had turned the scale even more prodigiously in his favour.

Why then has nature's vain munificence Profusely pour'd her bounties upon woman?