| Thomas Keightley - 1841 - 470 páginas
...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 condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian... | |
| Matthew Habershon - 1841 - 368 páginas
...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 - 376 páginas
...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 páginas
...made no 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... | |
| Henry Davis - 1844 - 224 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. — ROBERTSON'S Charles V, DESCRIPTION OF THE ROMAN ROADS. All the Roman cities were connected with... | |
| Jan Fredrik Helmers - 1844 - 500 páginas
...volgenden volzin van den grootsten der hedendaagsche Geschiedschrijvers : » 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, hè would without hesitation, name that which elapsed :i from the death of... | |
| George Finlay - 1844 - 592 páginas
...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 the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian... | |
| Edward Bishop Elliott - 1845 - 110 páginas
...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 condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would without hesitation name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian... | |
| 1846 - 742 páginas
...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 condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian... | |
| 1846 - 492 páginas
...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 the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Uomitian... | |
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