But your lordship knows that the citizens of Rome placed the images of their ancestors in the vestibules of their houses; so that, whenever they went in or out, these venerable bustoes met their eyes, and recalled the glorious actions of the dead, to... The Conquest of Canada - Seite xxxivon George Warburton - 1849 - 508 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Henry St. John (1st visct. Bolingbroke.) - 1809 - 480 Seiten
...frequenting his school. These are instances of the force of immediate example. But your lordship knows, that the citizens of Rome placed the images of their ancestors in the vestibules of their houses : so that, whenever they went in or out, these venerable bustoes met their... | |
| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 486 Seiten
...frequenting his school, ^hese are instances of the force of immediate example. But your lordship knows, that the citizens of Rome placed the images of their ancestors in the vestibules of their houses : so that, whenever they went in or out, these venerable bustoes met their... | |
| 1814 - 680 Seiten
...to cany systems of philosophy beyond all our ideas, mnd systems of history beyond all our memorials. The citizens of Rome placed the images of their ancestors in the vestibules of their houses ; so that, whenever they went in or out, these venerable bustos met their... | |
| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - 522 Seiten
...frequenting his school. These are instances of the force of immediate example. But your lordship knows that the citizens of Rome placed the images of their ancestors in the vestibules of their houses; so that, whenever they went in or out, these venerable bustoes met their... | |
| George Warburton - 1850 - 360 Seiten
...of a people ; for the triumphs of war are those of the general and the soldier ; increase of honor, wisdom, and prosperity are the triumphs of the nation....the images of their ancestors in the vestibule, to recall the virtues of the dead, and to stimulate the emulation of the living. We also should fix our... | |
| Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 Seiten
...frequenting his school. These are instances of the force of immediate example. But your lordship knows that the citizens of Rome placed the images of their ancestors in the vestibules of their houses ; so that, whenever they went in or out, these venerable "bustoes met their... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1888 - 420 Seiten
...frequenting his school. These are instances of the force of immediate example. But your lordship knows that the citizens of Rome placed the images of their ancestors in the vestibules of their houses : so that, whenever they went in or out, these venerable bustoes met their... | |
| James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 Seiten
...frequenting his school. These are instances of the force of immediate example. But your lordship knows that the citizens of . Rome placed the images of their ancestors in the vestibule of their houses ; so that, whenever they went in or out, these venerable bustoes met their eyes, and... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 452 Seiten
...frequenting his school. These are instances of the force of immediate example. But your lordship knows that the citizens of Rome placed the images of their ancestors in the vestibules of their houses : so that, whenever they went in or out, these venerable bustoes met their... | |
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