 | None - History - 1852 - 492 pages
...Robertson, in his preliminary volume to the History of Charles V., u if a man were called to fix upon a period in the history of the world, during which the...which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great, (AD 395,) to the reign of Alboinus in Lornbardy." (AD 571.) At the last mentioned epoch, the barbarian... | |
 | Slavery - 1852 - 506 pages
...Robertson, in his preliminary volume to the History of Charles V., " if a man were called to fix upon a period in the history of the world, during which the...would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed fumi the death of Theodosins the Great, (AE). 393,) to the reign of Alboinns in Lombardy." (AD 571.)... | |
 | Slavery - 1852 - 696 pages
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 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Political science - 1852 - 500 pages
...great peopie was the sole object of government.' Afterwards he adds : ' 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... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Bible - 1852 - 530 pages
...quote, in which he 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 huumu race wat most happy and prosperous, be would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from... | |
 | Slavery - 1853 - 518 pages
...Robertson, in his preliminary volume to the History of Charles V., " if a man were called to fix upon a period in the history of the world, during which the...calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, nmne that which elapsed fiom the death of Theodosius the Great, (AD 395,) to the .reign of Alboinus... | |
 | Charles Hay Cameron - Education - 1853 - 220 pages
...my present topic. Towards the end of his third chapter he says. — " 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... | |
 | Slavery - 1853 - 508 pages
...man were called to fix upon a period in the history of the world, duiing which the condition of tin; human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed fiom the death of Theodosius the Great, (AD 395.) to the reign of Alboinus in Lombardy." (AD 571.)... | |
 | William Robertson - Europe - 1856 - 656 pages
...inconsiderate cruelty, raged in veiy part of Europe, and completed its sufferings. If a man were called to fix upon the period in the history of the world,...was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hésitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosfus the Great, to the establishment of... | |
 | R. J. B. Bosworth - Europe - 1994 - 282 pages
...words. They might even adapt a passage of Gibbon to declare that if a man [or woman] 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 [or she] 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. 
