...and of the consequences of the enlargement of our towns. It is said, in honour of Augustus Caesar, that he found Rome a city of brick, and left it a city of marble ; but there remains, I believe, a nobler epitaph, for the English Prince or Minister, who, burning...

...of Augustus, the city daily augmented its splendour, but so much was added by that emperor that he boasted that " he found Rome a city of brick, and left it a city of marble." 10. The circumference of the city has been variously estimated, some writers including in their computation...

...of Augustus, the city daily augmented its splendour, but so much was added by that emperor, that he boasted that " he found Rome a city of brick, and left it a city of marble." 10. The circumference of the city has been variously estimated, some writers including in their computation...

...to the other tribes. 1 See History, Chapter IV. dour, but so much was added by that emperor that he boasted that " he found Rome a city of brick, and left it a city of marble." 10. The circumference of the city has been variously estimated, some writers including in their computation...

...national spirit. The age of Pericles was the most brilliant Athens knew, but not the most noble. Augustus found Rome a city of brick, and left it a city of marble ; but while the world's capital was passing through this splendid transformation, the old Roman virtue,...

...colonnades of Thebes, disdained the same lowly materials. Augustus, it is true, boasted that he had found Rome a City of Brick, and left it a City of Marble. Oh, vainglorious Sentence, unworthy of the sagest of the Csesars ! Those Mansions of Clay had sufficed...

...colonnades of Thebes, disdained the same lowly materials. Augustus, it is true, boasted that he had found Rome a City of Brick, and left it a City of Marble. Oh, vainglorious Sentence, unworthy of the sagest of the Caesars ! Those Mansions of Clay had sufficed...

...fabric, and erecting "perishable temples ! " If the panegyric of Augustus were, that he found his capital a city of brick, and left it a city of marble,} the eulogium which Pius IX. has earned, and posterity will pay him, is that " He found his people slaves,...

...of Augustus, the city daily augmented its splendour, but so much was added by that emperor, that he boasted that " he found Rome a city of brick, and left it a city of marble." 10. The circumference of the city has been variously estimated, some writers including in their computation...

...ancient lamps suspended by ropes, which inflicted darkness visible rather than available light. Augustus boasted that he found Rome a city of brick, and left it of marble. George IV. said something to the same effect as regarded London during his own short reign....