He said that the "late financial administration"had"retired to those dim splendours at the end of the corridor which are the goal of all rising demagogues".
All of us who value the beauty of our countryside and the splendour of our architectural heritage should be grateful for their work.
In addition, he proclaimed the huge splendour of the landscape of vast direct taxation cuts which would be opened up after disposal of the windmills.
However, even though economic growth improved during the last 30 years of the eighteenth century, this growth did not achieve the splendour of the first half of the century.
Although it might seem to occupy one extreme end of the aesthetic spectrum, the ballet was an important component of this reconciliation of dramatic action and visual splendour.
It may well be that the prospect of unchecked female power, symbolised so compellingly by the splendour of the prima donna, had become both too fascinating and too terrifying.
They endeavoured to excel in the splendour and elegance of their equipage, houses and tables.
Local traffic increased enormously, crowding our old streets, cluttering and destroying the splendour of the monumental squares.
