 | Edward Bishop Elliott - Bible - 1847 - 606 pages
...the empire was illustrated, and its limits extended. In short, 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... | |
 | 1847 - 586 pages
...Domitian's reign, there was a period of eighty or ninety years, described by Gibbon as the period of the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous. It was to the personal characters of the emperors chiefly that this felicity... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - History - 1849 - 428 pages
...defeated by Charlemagne, and Italy was afterwards incorporated into the new Empire of the West. The period which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy, was one of the most calamitous and distressing in the history of the world. defeated and slain by Belisa'rius,... | |
 | Joseph Jones - 1849 - 602 pages
...above. What has been viewed as the time of greatest calamity and affliction in Europe ? The time that elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy : a time of war, pestilence, and famine : AD 395 — 572 = 177 years. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. From... | |
 | Gabriel Gottfried Bredow - 1850 - 224 pages
...refined vices of the Empire, were heaping on the human race. " If," says Robertson, " a man were called to fix upon the period in the history of the world...hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of AD Theodosius the Great (AD 395) and the establish57 5 j~ ment of the Lombards in Italy (571)." And... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - 842 pages
...the two Antoniues, until the succession of Commodus, AD 180. 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... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Rome - 1850 - 470 pages
...her obedience, affection, and simplicity of manners. " If a man," says Gibbon, " 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... | |
 | Industries - 1851 - 770 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...which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great, (AD 395.) to the reign of Alboinus in Lombardy," (AD 571.) At the last mentioned epoch, the barbarian... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - Industries - 1851 - 760 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...which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great, (AD 395,) to the reign of Alboinus in Lombardy," (AD 571.) At the last mentioned epoch, the barbarian... | |
 | 1851 - 854 pages
...thus, without meaning it, we are propagating lies. ' If a man were called,' writes Gibbon, ' to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he • See Shelley's Works, edited by Mrs. Shelley, vol. iv. p. 166. It deceived... | |
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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. 
