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 Quarterly Review - 43 페이지 편집 - 1828전체보기 - 도서 정보
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 880 페이지
...expressions, and thus, without meaning it, we arc propagating lies. ' If a man were called,' writes Gibbon, ' to fix the period in the history of the world during...of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he * See Shelley's Works, edited by Mrs. Shelley, vol. iv. p. 166. It deceived even his wife. would, without... | |
| 1851 - 854 페이지
...expressions, and thus, without meaning it, we are propagating lies. ' If a man were called,' writes Gibbon, ' to fix the period in the history of the world during...of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he • See Shelley's Works, edited by Mrs. Shelley, vol. iv. p. 166. It deceived even his wife. would,... | |
| 1851 - 770 페이지
...Robertson, in his preliminary volume to the History of Charles V., " 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 and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius... | |
| James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1851 - 760 페이지
...Robertson, in his preliminary volume to the History of Charles V., " 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 and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius... | |
| James Armstrong (curate of Ardoyne.) - 1851 - 216 페이지
...them that do them," that this admired and seductive writer regards as " the period in the histoi-y of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous." NOTE E, PAGE 102. Galerius was the chief author of Diocletian persecution. Gibbon thus writes of him... | |
| Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1852 - 500 페이지
...in which the happiness of a great peopie was the sole object of government.' Afterwards he adds : ' If a man were called to fix the period in the history...the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.' — Decline and Fall, c. 3. A similar opinion had been previously expressed by Fielding : ' Mankind... | |
| Albert Barnes - 1852 - 530 페이지
...will be occasion again to quote, in which he expressly designates this period, in these words :— " If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the huumu race wat most happy and prosperous, be would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from... | |
| None - 1852 - 492 페이지
...Robertson, in his preliminary volume to the History of Charles V., u 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 and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius... | |
| 1852 - 506 페이지
...Robertson, in his preliminary volume to the History of Charles V., " 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 and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed fumi the death of Theodosins... | |
| Charles Edward Fraser Tytler - 1852 - 328 페이지
...called upon to fix a period of history during which the human race was most calamitous and aiHicted, he would without hesitation name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy." — (Robertson.) The epitome is as follows... | |
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