 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.  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 4931865Full view - About this book
 | Matthew Habershon - Bible - 1841 - 312 pages
...cruelty, raged in every part of Europe, and completed its sufferings. If a man were called to fix upon a period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race were most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the... | |
 | Matthew Habershon - Bible - 1841 - 312 pages
...cruelty, raged in every part of Europe, and completed its sufferings. If a man were called to fix upon a period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race were most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the... | |
 | William Guthrie - 1843 - 80 pages
...distinction between what was sacred and v. IM! was profane. If a person should be ill1'. nn! to fix upon the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was the most calamitous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed between the death of Theodoiiui... | |
 | George Finlay - Byzantine Empire - 1844 - 554 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...elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus,"* It may be doubted whether the Roman government ever relaxed the systematic oppression under... | |
 | Jan Fredrik Helmers - 1844
...volzin van den grootsten der hedendaagsche Geschiedschrijvers : » If a man » were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during » which...of the human race was most happy and » prosperous, hè would without hesitation, name that which elapsed :i from the death of Domitian to the accension... | |
 | Henry Davis - 1844
...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 afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius... | |
 | Edward Bishop Elliott - Bible - 1845 - 80 pages
...quotidie felicitatem imperil Nerva Trajanus, &c." Agric. ii. 1. * " If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the...elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus." Gib. i. 126. the white prosperity and happiness, the crown an Emperor, the bow a Cretan,—or... | |
 | 1846
...reply, has thus strikingly expressed his opinion to that effect ; — " If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the...elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus." But against this representation of Gibbon's, Mr. Arnold first repeats the brief allegation... | |
 | 1846
...which succeeded the death of Domitian were peculiarly prosperous. ' If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the...hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Uomitian to the accession of Commodus.'* 5. The correspondence of some of the predictions of this book... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1846
...of their household gods.49 Happies If a man were called to fix the period in the history of minf. ° the world, during which the condition of the human...that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the acAD cession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman 8"—I8°. empire was governed by absolute power,... | |
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