 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 Collected Works of Dugald Stewart - Página 388por Dugald Stewart - 1856Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | William Robertson - 1825 - 476 páginas
...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 d. The contemporary authors, who... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 468 páginas
...fix the period in the history of the Humans, world, during which the conditioh of the human race Aras most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation,...elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of... | |
 | 1826 - 684 páginas
...and shrewd historian of the last century said on this point. "If a man were called," says Gibbon, " to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most prosperous and happy, he would without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian... | |
 | 1826 - 688 páginas
...shrewd historian of the last century paid on this point. " If а тая were called," says Gibbon, " to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most prosperous and happy, he would without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian... | |
 | Patrick Fitzgerald - 1826 - 474 páginas
...marched in their train, and, to use the words of Dr. Robertson, " 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 afflicting, he would without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodo*... | |
 | Robert Culbertson - 1826 - 584 páginas
...cruelty, raged in every part of Europe, and completed ils 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, withbut hesitation, name that which elapsed between the death of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 páginas
...tyrants disdained to punish it. Tacit. Annul, vi. 14.' But a few pages before we read, that ' If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the...elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of... | |
 | Selina Bunbury - 1828 - 372 páginas
...death closed that period of more than fourscore years : speaking of which, Mr. Gibbon says, ' If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the...elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. During a happy period of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted... | |
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