 | Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 502 pages
...been sometimes carried to the highest pitch. " If a man," says Mr. Gibbon,* "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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 512 pages
...been sometimes carried to the highest pitch. " If a man," says Mr. Gibbon,* " 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... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Bible - 1856 - 520 pages
...quote, in which ho expressly designates this period, in these words :" If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race wn> most happy und prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death... | |
 | William Robertson - Europe - 1857 - 570 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 afHicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...to the great rule which teaches that * " If aman,"saysGibbon, " were called upon to fix the period 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 Domitiaa... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1858 - 736 pages
...cruelty, raged in every part of Europe, and completed its sufferings. 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 calamitous and afHicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodocius the Great,... | |
 | 1865 - 810 pages
...Gibbon was certainly not an apologist of despotism; and yet he avers that, " If a man were called to fix a 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... | |
 | 1861 - 594 pages
...with the words of Gibbon, speaking of the reign of the Antonines : " 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... | |
 | John Henry Pratt - 1862 - 176 pages
...emblematical horse could alone denote its bloodstained condition. J * " 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... | |
 | 1862 - 838 pages
...that time is but a covert attack on Christianity. " If a man," he says, " were called upon to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race ioas most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death... | |
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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. 
