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. The Advancement of Learning, Book I - Page 124by Francis Bacon - 1904 - 145 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Robertson - 1809 - 516 pages
...Europe, and completed its sufferings. If a man were called to fix upon the period in the historyof 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 Gibbon - 1811 - 542 pages
...many persons preserved the image of Marcus Antoninus among those of their household gods.' H«ppine»s if a man were called to fix the period in the - history...the condition of the human race was most happy and prosper• Before he went on the second expedition against the Germans, he read lectures of philosophy... | |
| Thomas Branagan - 1812 - 370 pages
...was sacred and what was profane : They respected no age, nor sect, nor rank. If a man was called upon to fix 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 this crisis. Their conquerors demolished... | |
| William Robertson - 1813 - 602 pages
...cruelly, raged in every part of Europe, and completed ils sufferings. If a man were called to iix 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... | |
| William Robertson - 1813 - 598 pages
...cruelty, raged in even- 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 deathofTheodosius... | |
| John Adams - 1813 - 324 pages
...and what was profane: they respected no age, nor sex, nor rank. If a man was called upon 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... | |
| William Robertson - 1813 - 596 pages
...every part of Europe, and completed its sufferings. If a man were called to fix upon the period in tire 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... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1814 - 572 pages
...Drawn out in a * Gibbon remarks, in the third chapter of his History of the Decline and Fall, that " if a man were called to fix the period in the history...elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Conunodus." Rev. f Thus M. le Sage, being we suppose a zealous Catholic, designated the glorious iera... | |
| 1814 - 592 pages
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| sir Nathaniel William Wraxall (1st bart.) - 1814 - 510 pages
...which elapsed between the death of Domitian, and the accession of Commodus, was incontestibly that, in which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous ; the vast extent of the Roman world being then governed by absolute power, under the guidance of virtue... | |
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