 | William Robertson - 1840 - 670 pàgines
...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 the Great, to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy.* The contemporary authors, who... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1841 - 470 pàgines
...of life, and to direct the destinies of an empire. "If a man," says Gibbon, " were called to fix a period in the history of the world during which the...that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accessjon of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, under the... | |
 | Matthew Habershon - 1841 - 368 pàgines
...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 - 1841 - 376 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Miley - 1843 - 382 pàgines
...have enjoyed the greatest happiness and prosperity.* " The vast extent of the empire," says Gibbon, "was governed by absolute power under the guidance...but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose characters and authority commanded involuntary respect. The forms of civil administration were carefully... | |
 | William Guthrie - 1843 - 848 pàgines
...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 - 1844 - 592 pàgines
...that 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...death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus,"* It may be doubted whether the Roman government ever relaxed the systematic oppression under which the... | |
 | Jan Fredrik Helmers - 1844 - 500 pàgines
...volgenden volzin van den grootsten der hedendaagsche Geschiedschrijvers : » If a man » were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during »...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 - 224 pàgines
...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 - 1845 - 110 pàgines
...augeatque 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 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 ahout... | |
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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. 
