 | 1852 - Počet stránok 798
...peroration :— " It was once finely said by Lord Brougham, that it was the boast of the Roman Emperor Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble ; but how much nobler the boast of the Minister who shall say that he found law dear, t our June Number... | |
 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - 1820 - Počet stránok 410
...habitation of the Pontifex Maximus, well knowing that he would be chosen for that august office. It was the boast of Augustus, " that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ;" and, perhaps, to the degenerate Romans, that proved a sufficient compensation for his finding Rome... | |
 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - 1822 - Počet stránok 434
...could measure its dimensions either way. knowing that he would be chosen for that august office. It was the boast of Augustus, " that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ;"* and, perhaps, to the degenerate Romans, that proved a sufficient compensation for his finding Rome... | |
 | 1829 - Počet stránok 686
...our own so" vereign, when to his other glories this shall truly be added. " (Cheers.) It was said by Augustus, that he found Rome of " brick and left it of marble, — an honourable boast, and one " which veiled many of the cruel and the tortuous acts of his " early... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1830 - Počet stránok 464
...JAMES ЕШЕЯ, MRIA, Architect. Nos. 1 fo20. Views, 40. Letter-press, 68 pp. 4to. Jones and Co. It was the boast of Augustus, that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. " The reign and regency of George the Fourth," says Mr. Elmes, " have scarcely done less for thé vast... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1843 - Počet stránok 616
...supplied with paved roads and aqueducts of masonry. It was not until the fall of Corinth and of Carthage that Rome was distinguished by the magnificence of...Still, during the last century of the republic several public works of considerable magnitude were executed ; the military ways paved with large blocks of... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1845 - Počet stránok 280
...generous and gifted, those who will join in the following noble sentiment of Lord Brougham : " It was the boast of Augustus, that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble, a praise not unworthy a great prince. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast, when he shall... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Octavian Blewitt - 1850 - Počet stránok 750
...spacious and costly plan than had been previously adopted. The boast of Augustus that he found Home of brick and left it of marble, may be taken as a...Still, during the last century of the republic several public works of considerable magnitude were executed. The military ways, paved with large blocks of... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - Počet stránok 524
...minutest objects which are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance. 12. It was the boast of Augustus, that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be our Sovereign's boast when he shall have to say, that he found law dear,... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1851 - Počet stránok 636
...of all this, constitutes what may be called the naturalism of society. This spirit is ever repeating the boast of Augustus, that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble. Nero went further still in his house of gold ; nor looked he with greater scorn on the blessed Apostles... | |
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His peroration is worth recalling; he said: "it was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. 
