 | Jan Fredrik Helmers - 1844 - 500 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 492 pages
...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... | |
 | 1846 - 742 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 678 pages
...of their household gods.49 Happies If a man were called to fix the period in the history of minf. ° 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... | |
 | 1877 - 226 pages
...enlightened despotism. ' If a man were called,' as he says in an oftenquoted passage, ' Го 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 - 1847 - 606 pages
...empire was illustrated, and its limits extended. In short, he adds, " 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... | |
 | 1847 - 586 pages
...Domitian's reign, there was a period of eighty or ninety years, described by Gibbon as the period of the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous. It was to the personal characters of the emperors chiefly that this felicity... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1850 - 470 pages
...her obedience, affection, and simplicity of manners. " 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... | |
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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. 
