| William Jones - 1824 - 522 páginas
...people, and the sword of slaughter weary of destroying. "If a man were called," says Dr. Robertson, "to fix upon the period in the history of the world,...hesitation, name* that which elapsed from the death of Thcoclosius the great (AD 395) to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy (AD 571.) The cotemporary... | |
| William Robertson - 1825 - 472 páginas
...inconsiderate 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,...great, to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy d. The contemporary authors, who beheld that scene of desolation, labour and are at a loss for expressions... | |
| William Robertson - 1825 - 468 páginas
...inconsiderate 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,...great, to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy d . The contemporary authors, who beheld that scene of desolation, labour and are at a loss for expressions... | |
| Robert Culbertson - 1826 - 584 páginas
...inconsiderate 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,...race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, withbut hesitation, name that which elapsed between the death of Theodosius the dreat in the year 3.95,... | |
| Patrick Fitzgerald - 1826 - 474 páginas
...afflict mankind 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,...condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicting, he would without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodo* The Account... | |
| 1826 - 684 páginas
...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
...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... | |
| 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 - 626 páginas
...punish it. Tacit. Annal. vi. 14.' But a few pages before we read, that ' 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... | |
| Selina Bunbury - 1828 - 372 páginas
...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 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... | |
| 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
...punish it. Tacit. Annal. vi. 14.' But a few pages before we read, that ' 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... | |
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