 | 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
...punish it. Tacit. Annal. vi. 14.' But a few pages before we read, 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... | |
 | Selina Bunbury - 1828 - 372 pages
...period of more than fourscore years : speaking of which, Mr. Gibbon 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... | |
 | 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
...punish it. Tacit. Annal. vi. 14.' But a few pages before we read, 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... | |
 | 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
...punish it. Tacit. Annul, vi. 14.' But a few pages before we read, 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... | |
 | William Robertson - Europe - 1829 - 628 pages
...condition of the human rare was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, wirhout hesitation, ñamo that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the...beheld that scene of desolation, labour and are at a loes for expressions to describe the horror of it. The Scourge of God, the Destroyer of Nations, are... | |
 | Robert Taylor - Free thinkers and freethought - 1829 - 466 pages
...power of their worst enemy to attaint the purity of their administration. " 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... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Church history - 1829 - 770 pages
...they now became subjected. It is a remark of Dr. Robertson, " that if a man were called to fix upon a period, in the history of the world, during which...the condition of the human race was most calamitous, he would without hesitation name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the great, AD 395,... | |
 | Philip Allwood - Bible - 1829 - 538 pages
...account the persecuted state of the Christians through the whole of this space,—" 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... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Church history - 1829 - 428 pages
...period, in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous, he would without hesitation name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the great, AD 395, to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy, AD 571." Sec. 42. Although the barbarians were... | |
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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. 
