Grandiloquy

How highly their firſt God tranſcendenth our God the Creator, appeareth from the ſwelling nonſenſical Grandiloquies, which the Platoniſts of the Chriſtian Church derive from their School;

I trust, therefore, that the same allowance will be accorded me, if I should be betrayed, whilst writing about Marseilles, into similar grandiloquy.

If I stated the number of chloroform applications that I have made with complete safety, it might be considered as grandiloquy, and as a slur upon professional brethren who have had the misfortune of meeting with fatal accidents.

And treason, swift as the dawn of morn, / Flies through the land, to destruction borne— / If you wish to stop the grandiloquy / Of the approaching storm, of which you, / As yet, have the prologue, / Hie quickly home.

These grandiloquies, whether at the official marts or casual meeting-places, produced no shortlived effect.