 | Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 pages
...Gibbon, • without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, VOL. II. ° very face of it, it may boast the patronage of a crowd of expositors, and these too respectable.... | |
 | 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,...Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonines, who delighted ia the image of liberty, and were pleased with considering themselves as the accountable ministers... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 500 pages
...not easy to express his vices with dignity or/ even decency. Tacitus fairly calls him " a hog." sion of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was...but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose character and authority commanded involuntary respect. The forms of the civil administration were carefully... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 492 pages
...Decline and Fall at' the Koman Empire, vol. i. ch. s> 140 History of the Christian Church. [cH. u. sion of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was...but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose character and authority commanded involuntary respect. The forms of the civil administration were carefully... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 500 pages
...The armies were restrained by the firm but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose character and authority commanded involuntary respect. The forms of the civil administration were carefully governed by Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonines, who delighted in the image of liberty, and were... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1819 - 626 pages
...prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, under the guidance * Vitr llins eonsnmed in mere eating, at least six millions of onr IAODTT in about seven months. It... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 474 pages
...prosperous, he would without hesitation name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was...the civil administration were carefully preserved by Nerva,Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonines, who delighted in the image of liberty, and were pleased with... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 676 pages
..."the vast extent of the Roman empire," as Mr Gibbon has elegantly and extravagantly expressed it, " was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom." Tacitus was born in the middle of the former period, and composed all his writings in the latter period.... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1824 - 522 pages
...prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was...hand of four successive emperors, whose characters * Vitellius consumed in mere eating, at least six millions of our money in about seven mouths. It is... | |
 | 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
...prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was...of four successive emperors, whose characters and autliority commanded involuntary respect. The forms of the civil administration were carefully preserved... | |
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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.... 
