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" 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. "
Fraser's Magazine - Page 231
1873
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The Historical Works of William Robertson: With an Account of His ..., Volume 5

William Robertson - America - 1813 - 598 pages
...cruelty, raged in even- 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 the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would without hesitation name that which elapsed from the deathofTheodosius...
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The historical works of William Robertson, with an account of his life and ...

William Robertson - 1813 - 602 pages
...cruelly, raged in every part of Europe, and completed ils sufferings. If a man were called to iix 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...
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The Flowers of Modern History: Comprehending on a New Plan, the Most ...

John Adams - Great Britain - 1813 - 324 pages
...and what was profane: they respected no age, nor sex, nor rank. If a man was 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...
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The Historical Works of William Robertson: With an Account of His ..., Volume 5

William Robertson - America - 1813 - 596 pages
...every part of Europe, and completed its sufferings. If a man were called to fix upon the period in tire 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...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1814 - 572 pages
...Drawn out in a * Gibbon remarks, in the third chapter of his History of the Decline and Fall, that " if a man were called to fix the period in the history...elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Conunodus." Rev. f Thus M. le Sage, being we suppose a zealous Catholic, designated the glorious iera...
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The history of France, from the accession of Henry the third, to ..., Volume 1

sir Nathaniel William Wraxall (1st bart.) - 1814 - 510 pages
...which elapsed between the death of Domitian, and the accession of Commodus, was incontestibly that, in which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous ; the vast extent of the Roman world being then governed by absolute power, under the guidance of virtue...
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The History of the Waldenses: Connected with a Sketch of the ..., Volume 1

William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 492 pages
...age of Trajan and the Antonines. " If a man were called to fix," says the same elegant historian, " the period in the history of the world during which...that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the acces• Vitellioa consumed in mere eating, at least six minions of our money in about seven months....
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The History of the Waldenses: Connected with a Sketch of the ..., Volume 1

William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 500 pages
...sword of slaughter weary of destroying. " If a man were called," says Dr. Robertson, " 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...
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The History of the Waldenses: Connected with a Sketch of the ..., Volume 1

William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 500 pages
...sword of slaughter weary of destroying. " If a man were called," says Dr. Robertson, " 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...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 472 pages
...which elapsed from the death of the of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. The vast Roma"•extent of the Roman empire Was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom. The armies were restrained by the firm but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose characters...
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