 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.  English Prose: From Maundevile to Thackeray - Page 275edited by - 1888 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Patrick Fitzgerald - 1826 - 474 pages
...marched in their train, and, to use the words of Dr. Robertson, " 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 afflicting, he would without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodo*... | |
 | Theology - 1826 - 684 pages
...historian of the last century said on this point. "If a man were called," says Gibbon, " to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most prosperous and happy, he would without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian... | |
 | Theology - 1826 - 688 pages
...historian of the last century paid on this point. " If а тая were called," says Gibbon, " to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most prosperous and happy, he would without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian... | |
 | Selina Bunbury - 1828 - 372 pages
...of more than fourscore years : speaking of which, Mr. Gibbon says, ' If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the...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... | |
 | Robert Taylor - Free thinkers and freethought - 1829 - 466 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1831 - 858 pages
...as comprehended under the first seal, he expresses himself thus: " If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the...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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