No better proof could be given that the good-humoured magnanimity and sense of fair-play on which English people pride themselves is more than an empty boast than the reception accorded to Defoe's True-Born Englishman.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
He blessed Oliver, who, in turn, had blessed him as though he had displayed heroic magnanimity.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
But when he got to this point in them, Beaton rose to magnanimity and in a flash of dramatic reverie disposed of a part of Dryfoos's riches in placing his father and mother, and his brothers and sisters, beyond all pecuniary anxiety forever.
"A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Fifth"
William Dean Howells