 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 Climax of the Ages - Página 117por Alfred Pearson - 1923 - 492 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Jones - 1824 - 522 páginas
...golden age of Trajan and the Antonines. " If a man were called to fix," says the same elegant historian, "the period in the history of the world, during which...power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom. The armies were restrained by the firm but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose characters *... | |
 | William Robertson - 1825 - 468 páginas
...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, 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... | |
 | William Robertson - 1825 - 472 páginas
...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, 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 468 páginas
...many persons preserved the image of Marcus Antoninus, among those of their household gods.49 »w«!M If a man were called to 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,... | |
 | 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
...jealous of tyrants disdained to 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...power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom. The armies were restrained by the firm but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose characters and... | |
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