 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
 | Edward Irving - Bible - 1831 - 470 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 Jones - 1831 - 570 pages
...celebrated historian, has remarked, concerning this period, that " were a man called to 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... | |
 | Scotland - 1832 - 1042 pages
...point of depression. " If," says a celebrated reviewer of history, " 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... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Coins - 1834 - 392 pages
...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...absolute power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom. The armies were restrained by the firm and gentle hand of five successive emperors, whose characters... | |
 | Robert Taylor - Rationalism - 1834 - 460 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...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 - Bible - 1834 - 498 pages
...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 - Religions - 1834 - 562 pages
...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 - Byzantine Empire - 1837 - 1304 pages
...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 of Domitian to the accession of Cornmodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of... | |
 | William Jones - Church history - 1838 - 568 pages
...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 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 th« пшиац race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which... | |
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