 | Thomas Keightley - 1841 - 470 pages
...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 - 376 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 - 1841 - 368 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 - 848 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 - 1844 - 592 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1846 - 742 pages
...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 death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus." But against this representation of Gibbon's, Mr. Arnold first repeats the brief allegation given in... | |
 | 1846 - 492 pages
...those 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...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... | |
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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. 
