 | 1873 - 824 pages
...of the external condition of the world about him. ' If, says Gibbon, ' 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... | |
 | Religion - 1831 - 864 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 condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of modus."... | |
 | Charles Sherwill Dawe - History - 1874 - 282 pages
...was a debauchee and a tyrant. Gibbon, the great historian, says : "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... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Philosophy, English - 1876 - 504 pages
...enlightened despotism. ' If a man were called,' as he says in an oftenquoted passage, ' 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 Jacob Anderson - World history - 1876 - 514 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 tho human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - History - 1877 - 558 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 afllicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great,... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - English language - 1877 - 328 pages
...instituted between him and the man whose pupil he was. — Johnson. (2) If one were called on to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, one would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian... | |
 | George Finlay - Byzantine Empire - 1877 - 546 pages
...Greece cannot be included in the general assertion of Gibbon, that '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... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - English language - 1877 - 330 pages
...man whose pupil he was. — Johnson. (2) If one were called on to fix the period in the history »f the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, one would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian... | |
 | English literature - 1878 - 620 pages
...traverses, on behalf of his clients, Gibbon's celebrated assertion that if a man were called on 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... | |
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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. 
