 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...sceptres are most chiefly to be envied for that they bestow the power of thus conquering and ruling thus. It was the boast of Augustus— it formed part of...perfidies of his earlier years were lost — that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1828 - 838 pages
...power of thus conquering and ruling thus. It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of the lustre in which the perfidies of his earlier years were lost — that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1832 - 284 pages
...for that they bestow the power of thus conquering and ruling thus. It was the boast of Augustus—it formed part of the glare in which the perfidies of his earlier years were lost—that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble; a praise not unworthy a great Prince, and... | |
 | Great Britain - 1833 - 600 pages
...of thus conquering, and ruling thus. It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of the lustre in which the perfidies of his earlier years were lost — that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...sceptres are most chiefly to be envied for that they bestow th& power of thus conquering and ruling thus. It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of...perfidies of his earlier years were lost — that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to> which the present... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1838 - 648 pages
...sceptres are most chiefly to be envied for that they bestow the power of thus conquering, and ruling thus. It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of...perfidies of his earlier years were lost — that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Political science - 1839 - 514 pages
...for that they bestow the power of thus conquering and ruling thus. It was the boast of Augustus—it formed part of the glare in which the perfidies of his earlier years were lost—that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1841 - 382 pages
...sceptres are most chiefly to be envied for that they bestow the power of thus conquering and ruling thus. It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of...perfidies of his earlier years were lost — that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...sceptres are most chiefly to be envied for that they bestow the power of thus conquering and ruling thus. It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of...perfidies of his earlier years were lost — that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1844 - 900 pages
...sceptres are most chiefly to be envied for that they bestow the power of thus conquering and ruling thus. It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of...perfidies of his earlier years were lost — that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present... | |
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It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of the glare in which the perfidies of his earlier years were lost — that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present reign also has its... 
