 | Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 pages
...it reaches from the reign of Nerva to that of Decius, a period of 15O years. The second denotes the under the guidance of virtue and wisdom. The armies...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
...with dignity or/ even decency. Tacitus fairly calls him " a hog." sion of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power,...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
...Empire, vol. i. cb. ,1. 140 History of the Christian Church. [cH. n, sion of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power,...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 - 1819 - 626 pages
...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... | |
 | 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
...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,...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
...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,...Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonines, who delighted in the image of liberty, and were pleased with considering themselves the accountable ministers of... | |
 | 1828 - 598 pages
...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,...Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonines, who delighted in the image of liberty, and were pleased with considering themselves the accountable ministers of... | |
 | 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 - 626 pages
...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,...Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonines, who delighted in the image of liberty, and were pleased with considering themselves the accountable ministers of... | |
 | 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
...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,...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.... 
