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...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...

...principatum ao libertatcm, augeatque quotidie felicitatem imperil Nerva Trajanus, &c." Agric. ii. 1. * " If a man were called to fix the period in the history...the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus." Gib. i. 126. the white prosperity and happiness, the crown an Emperor, the bow a Cretan,—or ahout...

...both in the Horse and in my reply, has thus strikingly expressed his opinion to that effect ; — " If a man were called to fix the period in the history...the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus." But against this representation of Gibbon's, Mr. Arnold first repeats the brief allegation given in...

...the death of Nero, while those which succeeded the death of Domitian were peculiarly prosperous. ' If a man were called to fix the period in the history...hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Uomitian to the accession of Commodus.'* 5. The correspondence of some of the predictions of this book...

...of their household gods.49 Happies If a man were called to fix the period in the history of minf. ° the world, during which the condition of the human...that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the acAD cession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman 8"—I8°. empire was governed by absolute power,...

...by which the glory of the empire was illustrated, and its limits extended. In short, he adds, " If a man were called to fix the period in the history...the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus." 2 I said that the wars of the Romans during this period, were all but uniformly triumphant. And who...

...of an enlightened despotism. ' If a man were called,' as he says in an oftenquoted passage, ' Го fix the period in the history of the world during...elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Cominodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, under the direction...

...Domitian's reign, there was a period of eighty or ninety years, described by Gibbon as the period of the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous. It was to the personal characters of the emperors chiefly that this felicity was due; and, what seems...

...her obedience, affection, and simplicity of manners. " If a man," says Gibbon, " were called to fix a period in the history of the world during which the...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...