 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 540 pages
...of the human race in Europe was the most calamitous and afflicted, he would probably, without much hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great ta • Plutarch. to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy. The contemporary authors, who beheld... | |
 | History - 1800 - 580 pages
...Europe, and. completed its fufiirrings. 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 wouM, without hefitation, name that which e'apfed from the death of Theodofms the Great to the establilhment... | |
 | William Robertson - Europe - 1804 - 378 pages
...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...Lombards in Italy." The contemporary authors, who beheld that scene of desolation, labour and are at a loss for expressions to describe the horror of it. The... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 494 pages
...their household gods |. Happineft If a man were called to fix the period in the •fjbe RO- history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, t * Before he went on the second expedition against the German's, he read lectures... | |
 | 1807 - 574 pages
...the history of the world 'during which the condition of the human r*ce WAS most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Demitian to the accessîbn of Commodus" ; during the greatest part of which, the woe Id was under the... | |
 | Donald Fraser - World history - 1808 - 442 pages
...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,"* the son of the late emperor Marcus, a wretch, in whose mind... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 pages
...commentators unite in observing. 15 P. 233. ' 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,' says Mr. Gibbon, • without hesitation, name that which elapsed from... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - Bibliography - 1812 - 370 pages
...respected no age, nor sect, nor rank. If a man was called upon to fix the period, in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human...calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation name this crisis. Their conquerors demolished palaces and erected cottages on their ruins ; the finest works... | |
 | William Robertson - America - 1813 - 596 pages
...Europe, and completed its sufferings. If a man were called to fix upon the period in tire history of the world during which the condition of the human...Great, to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy B. The contemporary authors, who beheld that scene of desolation, labour and are at a loss for expression... | |
 | William Robertson - 1813 - 602 pages
...Europe, and completed ils sufferings. If a man were called to iix upon the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human...the Great, to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy.1 The contemporary authors, who beheld that scene of desolation, labour and are at a loss for... | |
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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. 
