extravagancy

How To Use extravagancy In A Sentence

• _ Now it comes into my head, the duke of Mantua makes an entertainment to night in masquerade: If you love extravagancy so well, madam, I'll put you into the head of one; lay by your nunship for an hour or two, and come amongst us in disguise. The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04
• But design styles do tend to filter down from those rich enough for an “complete extravagancy and uncessary use of valuable materials” – because they hire architects who follow eachothers work. Zero Energy Houses Creating a New Design Vernacular:
• The Japanese history of “Tanzar and Neadarne,” by the same author, is an amiable extravagancy, interspersed with the most just reflections. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
• What you show is complete extravagancy and uncessary use of valuable materials. Zero Energy Houses Creating a New Design Vernacular:
• Only we must be sure that it be a divine revelation, and that we understand it right: else we shall expose ourselves to all the extravagancy of enthusiasm, and all the error of wrong principles, if we have faith and assurance in what is not divine revelation. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• It was only occasionally that she would experience their extravagancy and that was only when she was in the rare presence of her globetrotting father.
• If the boundaries be not set between faith and reason, no enthusiasm or extravagancy in religion can be contradicted. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• Now the poet hath undertaken, for their being kicked three or four times a-week about the stage to the gallows, infamously rogued and rascalled, to try what he can do towards making the charter forfeitable, by some extravagancy and disorder of the people, which the authority of the best governed cities have not been able to prevent, sometimes under far less provocations. The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07
• In a good poem, whether it be epic or dramatic, as also in sonnets, epigrams, and other pieces, both judgement and fancy are required: but the fancy must be more eminent; because they please for the extravagancy, but ought not to displease by indiscretion. Leviathan
• What extravagancy is not man capable of entertaining, when once his shackled reason is led in triumph by fancy and prejudice! Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman