 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1914 - 770 pages
...American jurist has done, a second maker of the Constitution. I will not borrow the phrase which said of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble, because Marshall's function was not to change but to develop. The Constitution was, except of course... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1914 - 772 pages
...American jurist has done, a second maker of the Constitution. I will not borrow the phrase which said of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble, because Marshall's function was not to change but to develop. The Constitution was, except of course... | |
 | 1884 - 624 pages
...the temples of the gods. Under the emperors the architectural display reached its full magnificence. The boast of Augustus, that he found Rome of brick, and left her of marble, expresses in a few words the great feature of his reign, and of that of several of the... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1919 - 792 pages
...American jurist has done, a second maker of the Constitution. I will not borrow the phrase which said of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble, because Marshall's function was not to change but to develop. The Constitution was, except of course... | |
 | Law - 1906 - 534 pages
...great law reformer—greater, because more practical than Bentbam. Listen to his noble aspirations. "It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble; but how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law dear... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1883 - 460 pages
...which he has not set up ; but follow him and receive the blessing while we follow. It was the remark of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. Our fathers, a century ago, found this nation half slave and half free. It is now left a free nation.... | |
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It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. How much nobler will be the Sovereign's boast when he shall have to say that he found law dear and left it cheap; found it a sealed book, 
