 | William Robertson - Europe - 1809 - 516 pages
...Europe, and completed its sufferings. If a man were called to fix upon the period in the historyof the world, during which the condition of the human...Lombards in Italy*. The contemporary authors, who beheld * Theodosius died AD 395, the reign of Alboinus in Lombardy began AD 571 j so that this period was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 542 pages
...image of Marcus Antoninus among those of their household gods.' H«ppine»s 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 prosper• Before he went on the second expedition against the Germans, he read lectures... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - Bibliography - 1812 - 370 pages
...sacred and what was profane : They 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...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 - 1813 - 602 pages
...inconsiderate cruelly, raged in every part of Europe, and completed ils sufferings. If a man were called to iix upon the period in the history of the world, during...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... | |
 | William Robertson - America - 1813 - 596 pages
...every part of 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...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... | |
 | John Adams - Great Britain - 1813 - 324 pages
...was sacred, and what was profane: they respected no age, nor sex, nor rank. If a man was called upon to fix upon the period, in the history of the world,...which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great, AD 39 S to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy, AD 571. The contemporary authors, who beheld... | |
 | William Robertson - America - 1813 - 598 pages
...inconsiderate cruelty, raged in even- part of Europe, and completed its sufferings. If a man were called to fix upon the period in the history of the world...without hesitation name that which elapsed from the deathofTheodosius the Great, to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy*. The contemporary authors,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1814 - 572 pages
...remarks, in the third chapter of his History of the Decline and Fall, 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... | |
 | Books - 1814 - 592 pages
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 | Thomas Branagan - Charity - 1815 - 376 pages
...sacred and what was profane : They 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...was most calamitous and afflicted, he would without hesitatioa name this crisis. Their conqueror/* demolished palaces, and erected cottages on their ruins... | |
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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. 
