 | Edward Bishop Elliott - 1845 - 110 páginas
...augeatque 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...the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus." Gib. i. 126. the white prosperity and happiness, the crown an Emperor, the bow a Cretan,—or ahout... | |
 | 1846 - 742 páginas
...in my 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...the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus." But against this representation of Gibbon's, Mr. Arnold first repeats the brief allegation given in... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 678 páginas
...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...that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the acAD cession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman 8"—I8°. empire was governed by absolute power,... | |
 | Edward Bishop Elliott - 1847 - 606 páginas
...glory of the 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...the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus." 2 I said that the wars of the Romans during this period, were all but uniformly triumphant. And who... | |
 | 1877 - 226 páginas
...of an 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...elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Cominodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, under the direction... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - 842 páginas
...and the two Antoniues, until the succession of Commodus, AD 180. Gibbon says, If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during...elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Conunodus. Bishop Newton, certainly a pleasing commentator, concludes, that John was banished under... | |
 | Gabriel Gottfried Bredow - 1850 - 224 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 AD Theodosius the Great (AD 395) and the establish57 5 j~ ment of the Lombards in Italy (571)." And... | |
 | Edward John Shepherd - 1851 - 600 páginas
...spurious Isidorian letter is attributed to him. " If a man," it is the language of Gibbon, " were called to fix the period in the history of the world during...the accession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Eoman empire was governed by absolute power under the guidance of virtue and wisdom." Perhaps so far... | |
 | 1851 - 770 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 395.) to the reign of Alboinus in Lombardy," (AD 571.) At the last mentioned... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1851 - 760 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 395,) to the reign of Alboinus in Lombardy," (AD 571.) At the last mentioned... | |
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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... 
