 If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.  The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart - Seite 388von Dugald Stewart - 1856Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Henry Smyth - 1834 - 392 Seiten
...pleasure and advantage, no further remark upon it is necessary. " If a man," says Gibbon, " were called on to fix the period in the history of the world, during...elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of... | |
 | Robert Taylor - 1834 - 460 Seiten
...put it into the power of their worst enemy to attaint the purity of their administration. " If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the...world during which the condition of the human race was'most happy and prosperous, he would without hesitation name thatwhich elapsed from the death of... | |
 | Matthew Habershon - 1834 - 498 Seiten
...which they brought upon the world, Dr. Robertson says, that " if a man were called upon to fix upon the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would without hesitation name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1834 - 562 Seiten
...they now became subjjcted. It is a remark of Dr. Robertson, " that if a man were called to fix upon a period, in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous, he would without hesitation name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1304 Seiten
...bonls iK-que mall, ailnuineraut. Tacit. 111,1. it. i. was most happy and prosperous, he would, with out hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death...the accession of Cornmodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom. The armies were... | |
 | William Jones - 1838 - 568 Seiten
...fix upon an epoch in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was the most happy and prosperous, he would without hesitation name that which elapsed from the death of Dcmitian to the accession of Commodus," namely, from the year 98 to 193, a period of about a century.... | |
 | William Robertson - 1838 - 658 Seiten
...cruelty, raged in very part of Europe, and completed its sufferings. If a man were called to fix upon the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of th« пшиац race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840 - 564 Seiten
...were called to fix the period Happiness of in the history of the world, during which lll° Komans. the condition of the human race was most happy and...elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of... | |
 | John Wilson - 1840 - 378 Seiten
...cruelty, raged in every part of Europe, and completed its sufferings. If a man were called on to fix upon the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius... | |
 | William Robertson - 1840 - 670 Seiten
...history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great, to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy.* The contemporary authors, who... | |
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