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 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Página 95por Edward Gibbon - 1899Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Robertson - 1804 - 378 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." The contemporary authors, who... | |
| 1807 - 574 páginas
...were calkd to fix the period in the history of the world 'during which the condition of the human r*ce WAS most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Demitian to the accessîbn of Commodus" ; during the greatest part of which, the woe Id was under the... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1807 - 572 páginas
...which the condition of the human r*ce was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation* rame that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus" ; during th« greatest p^rt of which, the world was under the government of philosophic tmperors? Though... | |
| Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 páginas
...which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would,' says Mr. Gibbon, • without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the...of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, VOL. II. ° very face of it, it may boast the patronage of a crowd of expositors, and these too respectable.... | |
| William Robertson - 1809 - 516 páginas
...historyof 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... | |
| William Robertson - 1813 - 602 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.1 The contemporary authors, who... | |
| John Adams - 1813 - 324 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, AD 39 S to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy, AD 571. The contemporary... | |
| William Robertson - 1813 - 596 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 B. The contemporary authors, who... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1814 - 572 páginas
...Drawn out in a * Gibbon remarks, in the third chapter of his History of the Decline and Fall, that " if a man were called to fix the period in the history...elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Conunodus." Rev. f Thus M. le Sage, being we suppose a zealous Catholic, designated the glorious iera... | |
| William Jones - 1816 - 492 páginas
...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...that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the acces• Vitellioa consumed in mere eating, at least six minions of our money in about seven months.... | |
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