 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 2311873Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 608 pages
...of tyrants disdained to punish it. Tacit. Annal. vi. 14.' But a few pages before we read, that ' If a man were called to fix the period in the history...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 626 pages
...of tyrants disdained to punish it. Tacit. Annal. vi. 14.' But a few pages before we read, that ' If a man were called to fix the period in the history...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... | |
 | Selina Bunbury - 1828 - 372 pages
...his death closed that period of more than fourscore years : speaking of which, Mr. Gibbon says, ' If a man were called to fix the period in the history...the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. During a happy period of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the... | |
 | Philip Allwood - Bible - 1829 - 538 pages
...taking into his account the persecuted state of the Christians through the whole of this space,—" were called " to fix the period in the history of...power, under " the guidance of virtue and wisdom. The armies " were restrained by the firm but gentle hand of "five successive emperors, whose characters... | |
 | Robert Taylor - Free thinkers and freethought - 1829 - 466 pages
...have 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...elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus."J That period embraces eighty-four years, from the JHith of the Christian era to the 180th,... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Church history - 1829 - 770 pages
...they now became subjected. 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,... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Church history - 1829 - 428 pages
...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, AD 395, to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy, AD 571." Sec. 42. Although... | |
 | Hallifield Cosgayne O'Donnoghue - 1830 - 428 pages
...cruelty, raged in every 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 death of Theodosius... | |
 | William Robertson - Europe - 1830 - 662 pages
...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 the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, lie would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of... | |
 | 1831 - 858 pages
...whole period, which I consider as comprehended under the first seal, he expresses himself thus: " If a man were called to fix the period in the history...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 Cornmodus."... | |
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