 | 1856 - 176 pages
...1. 3 Hen. 8. APPENDIX IV. \Walpoles Speech on the Peerage Bill, 1719.] AMONG the Romans, the wisest people upon earth, the Temple of Fame was placed behind...Virtue, to denote that there was no coming to the Temple of Fame but through that of Virtue. But if this Bill is passed into a law, one of the most powerful... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1860 - 300 pages
...his eloquence to. bear upon the rejection of this bill. " Among the Romans," said he, " the wisest people upon earth, the temple of Fame was placed behind...Virtue, to denote that there was no coming to the temple of Fame but through that of" Virtue. But if this bill is passed into a law, one of the most... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1860 - 528 pages
...down everything before him." The exordium of his speech is remarkable : " Among the Eomans, the wisest people upon earth, the Temple of Fame was placed behind the Temple of Virtue, to denote that there was 110 coming to the Temple of Fame, but through that of Virtue. But if this Bill is passed into a law,... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1863 - 298 pages
...his eloquence to bear upon the rejection of this bill. " Among the Itomans," said he, " the wisest people upon earth, the temple of Fame was placed behind...Virtue, to denote that there was no coming to the temple of Fame but through that of Virtue. But if this bill is passed into a law, one of the most powerful... | |
 | John Charles Earle - 1871 - 504 pages
...of which has been collected from memoranda in his own handwriting.* " Among the Romans," he stud, " the Temple of Fame was placed behind the Temple of Virtue, to denote that there was no coming to the Temple of Fame but through. that of Virtue. But if this bill is passed into law, one * Lord Stanhope,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1874 - 538 pages
...down everything before him." The exordium of his speech is remarkable : " Among the Romans, tbe wisest people upon earth, the Temple of Fame was placed behind...Virtue, to denote that there was no coming to the Temple of Fame, but through that of Virtue. But if this Bill is passed into a law, one of the most... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1874 - 488 pages
...beginning with these memorable words, " Among the Romans, the 1 7 Parl. Hist. 591. • Ibid. 607. wisest people upon earth, the Temple of Fame was placed behind the Temple of Virtue."1 In the following year Lord Cowper showed his sagacity by strenuously, though ineffectually,... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1876 - 1148 pages
...commons. On the second reading in that house, (Dec. 8,) Walpole rose, and thus began : " Among the Romans the temple of Fame was placed behind the temple of Virtue, to denote that there was no coming to the temple of Fame but through that of Virtue. But if this bill is passed into a law, one of the most powerful... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1792 - 950 pages
...and enriched with classical allusion. He said, in the opening of his speech — "Among the Romans, the temple of Fame was placed behind the temple of Virtue, to denote that there was no coming to the temple of Fame but through tliat of Virtue. But if this bill is passed into a law, one of the most... | |
 | François Guizot - 1876 - 568 pages
...bill was rejected in the House of Commons by a great majority. " Among the Romans," said Walpole, " the temple of Fame was placed behind the temple of Virtue, to denote that there was no coming to the temple of Fame but through that of Virtue. But if this bill is passed into a law, one of the most powerful... | |
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The exordium of his speech is remarkable. " Among the Romans, the wisest people upon earth, the temple of fame was placed behind the temple of virtue, to denote that there was no coming to the temple of fame, but through that of virtue. But if this bill... 
