"Magnum opus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... few centuries out of our time in the murky light of Prescott's sanctum. Yet, though he accepted us at our face value, and began to talk of his strange discoveries there was none of the old familiar prating about matrix and flux, elixir, magisterium, magnum opus, the mastery and the quintessence, those alternate names for the philosopher's stone which Paracelsus, Simon Forman, Jerome Cardan, and the other medieval worthies indulged in. This experience at least was as up-to-date as the Curies, ...
— The Poisoned Pen • Arthur B. Reeve
... more, rather. magister, -tri [magis], m., master. magnifice [magnificus], adv., splendidly. magnificentia, -ae [magnificus], f., splendor, magnificence. magnificus, -a, -um [magnus facio], splendid, magnificent. magnitudo, -tudinis [magnus], f., greatness, size. magnopere [abl. of magnum opus], adv., greatly, very much, exceedingly; earnestly. magnus, -a, -um, large, big, great, mighty; loud. maior, maius, comp. of magnus. male [malus], adv., badly, ill. malo, malle, malui [magis volo], wish rather, prefer. malum, -i [malus], n., evil, mischief. malus, -a, ...
— Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader • John Kirtland, ed.
... eminent electrician in later life, his most important work at this early stage was non-electrical; indeed, the greatest achievement of his life was non-electrical, for we must regard the regenerative furnace as his MAGNUM OPUS. Though in 1847 he published a paper in Liebig's ANNALEN DER CHEMIE on the 'Mercaptan of Selenium,' his mind was busy with the new ideas upon the nature of heat which were promulgated by Carnot, Clayperon, Joule, Clausius, Mayer, Thomson, and Rankine. He discarded the older notions ...
— Heroes of the Telegraph • J. Munro
... what shall replace to thee the bright dream of thine innocent ambition,—that angel-wing which had glittered across thy manhood, in the hour between its noon and its setting What replace to thee the Magnum Opus—the Great Book!—fair and broad-spreading tree, lone amidst the sameness of the landscape, now plucked up by the roots? The oxygen was subtracted from the air of thy life. For be it known to you, O my compassionate readers, that with the death of ...
— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... the model for many subsequent pharmacopoeias. He was also instrumental in founding the public museum of Bologna, which contains, especially in the natural history department, a large number of specimens collected by him. The results of his various researches were embodied in a magnum opus, which was designed to include everything that was known about natural history. The first three volumes, comprising his ornithology, were published in 1599, and a fourth, treating of insects, appeared in 1602. After his death a number of other ...
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