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So the Magnificent man must be also a liberal man, because the

liberal man will also spend what he ought, and in right manner:

but it is the Great, that is to say tke large scale, which is

distinctive of the Magnificent man, the object-matter of

liberality being the same, and without spending more money than

another man he will make the work more magnificent. I mean, the

excellence of a possession and of a work is not the same: as a

piece of property that thing is most valuable which is worth

most, gold for instance; but as a work that which is great and

beautiful, because the contemplation of such an object is

admirable, and so is that which is Magnificent. So the excellence

of a work is Magnificence on a large scale.