 | 1832 - 1042 páginas
...very lowest point of depression. " If," says a celebrated reviewer of history, " a man were called to fix upon the period in the history of the world...Great, to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy," that is, from the year of our Lord 395 to 571. " The contemporary authors," he goes on, " who beheld... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1838 - 440 páginas
...defeated by Charlemagne, and Italy was afterwards incorporated into the new Empire of the West. The period which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy, was one of the most calamitous and distressing in the history of the world. 3. The Goths were originally... | |
 | Matthew Habershon - 1834 - 498 páginas
...the miseries which they brought upon the world, Dr. Robertson says, that " if a man were called upon to fix upon the period in the history of the world,...which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great in 395, to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy." The three trumpets already considered, were... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1834 - 562 páginas
...they now became subjjcted. It is a remark of Dr. Robertson, " that if a man were called to fix upon a period, in the history of the world, during which...the condition of the human race was most calamitous, he would without hesitation name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great, AD 395,... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - 1834 - 392 páginas
...advantage, no further remark upon it is necessary. " If a man," says Gibbon, " were called on 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... | |
 | Robert Taylor - 1834 - 460 páginas
...power of their worst enemy to attaint the purity of their administration. " 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 thatwhich elapsed from the death of... | |
 | William Robertson, Dugald Stewart - 1835 - 1294 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...hesitation name that which elapsed from the death of Tlieodosius the Great to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy."1 The contemporary authors who... | |
 | William Robertson - 1836 - 662 páginas
...inconsiderate cruelty, raged in very part of Europe, and completed its sufferings. If a man were called to fix upon the period in the history of the world,...was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without STATE OF EUROPE. и íiesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great, to... | |
 | William Robertson - 1836 - 662 páginas
...inconsiderate cruelty, raged in very part of Europe, and completed its sufferings. If a man were called to fix upon the period in the history of the world,...the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, be would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great, to the... | |
 | William Robertson - 1838 - 658 páginas
...inconsiderate cruelty, raged in very 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 th« пшиац race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which... | |
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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. 
