 | 1883 - 540 páginas
...for " thirty pieces of silver," lives clear in the heads, in the hearts, of all men. — CARLYLE. If a man were called to fix upon the period in the history...hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy. The contemporary authors, who beheld... | |
 | William Robertson - 1884 - 730 páginas
...with such inconsiderate cruelty, raged in every part of Europe and completed its sufferimrs. If a pian were called to fix upon the period in the history...hesitation name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy.* The contemporary authors who beheld... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1904 - 394 páginas
...could mistake. In his " Charles the Fifth " the Scotsman wrote (vol. ip 13 of this edition) : " If a man were called to fix upon the period in the history...hesitation name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy." Seven years later the Englishman... | |
 | Daniel Macgregor - 1911 - 192 páginas
...all in strict accordance with the Apocalypse. — Elliott's Horse Apocalypticse, vol. 4, p. 280. *If a man were called to fix upon the period in the history...hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great, to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy, AD 395 to AD 571. The contemporary... | |
 | Charles Winthrop Gould - 1920 - 196 páginas
...now listen to the words of Robertson, the great historian:2 "If a man were called upon to fix upon a period in the history of the world during which the...hesitation name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great3 to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy." It may be that this was the nadir... | |
 | J. G. A. Pocock - 2001 - 452 páginas
...history of the world, during which the condition of the human race - 'Europe' has now become the globe 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.60 The years 295 to 571 form a... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1904 - 396 páginas
...could mistake. In his " Charles the Fifth " the Scotsman wrote (vol. ip 13 of this edition) : " If a man were called to fix upon the period in the history...hesitation name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy." Seven years later the Englishman... | |
 | J. G. A. Pocock - 2005 - 552 páginas
...that the first sentence above is an exact echo of one from Robertson, dealing with a subsequent period 'during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted'.77 It needs also to be stressed that during the Antonine moment nothing maintains human... | |
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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 the Great, to the... 
