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Octavian - Augustus (2379 words) |
 | Augustus left Rome for Gaul and Spain to put down truculent tribes in the summer of 27 BC and did not return until 24 BC. |
| Augustus was undoubtedly one of the most talented, energetic and skillful administrators that the world has ever known. |
| Augustus was no great military commander, but he possessed enough common sense to recognize that this was so. |
| Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (2028 words) |
| Pugin was somewhat below the middle stature and rather thick-set, with long dark hair and grey eyes that seemed to take in everything. |
| "When Welby Pugin began his labours," says Ferrey, "there was not a single building of modern date, either public or private, which was not a reproach and a disgrace to the country." And although not alone, still more than any other man Pugin worked for a restoration. |
| Pugin's own statement on the subject is decisive: "Barry's great work", he said, "was immeasurably superior to any that I could at the time have produced, and had it been otherwise, the commissioners would have killed me in a twelve-month" (i.e. |
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