 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.  Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe: Society in Transformationby Michael Frassetto - 2003 - 419 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 626 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1828 - 598 pages
...that 4 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...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 608 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Selina Bunbury - 1828 - 372 pages
...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,...the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. During a happy period of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the... | |
 | Philip Allwood - Bible - 1829 - 538 pages
...space,—" 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,...power, under " the guidance of virtue and wisdom. The armies " were restrained by the firm but gentle hand of "five successive emperors, whose characters... | |
 | Robert Taylor - Free thinkers and freethought - 1829 - 466 pages
...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...elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus."J That period embraces eighty-four years, from the JHith of the Christian era to the 180th,... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Church history - 1829 - 428 pages
...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, to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy, AD 571." Sec. 42. Although... | |
 | Hallifield Cosgayne O'Donnoghue - 1830 - 428 pages
...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. The contemporary authors who beheld... | |
 | 1831 - 858 pages
...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 Cornmodus." (See Hist, of the Decline and Fall, vol. I. ch. iii.) In comparing the attributes of the... | |
 | Edward Irving - Bible - 1831 - 470 pages
...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. (Theodosius died AD 395, the reign... | |
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