 | Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 842
...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 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... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 880
...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 which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he * See Shelley's Works, edited by Mrs. Shelley, vol. iv. p. 166. It deceived... | |
 | James Armstrong (curate of Ardoyne.) - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 216
...He calls him " the father of his country." And again, " If a man," says he, " 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 John Shepherd - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 600
...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 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... | |
 | 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 854
...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 which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he • See Shelley's Works, edited by Mrs. Shelley, vol. iv. p. 166. It deceived... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...great peopie was the sole object of government.' Afterwards 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... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 530
...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... | |
 | 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...cruel, exterminating war, not even sparing women and children. " Hence," says Dr. Robertson, in bis preliminary volume to the History of Charles V., '•...to fix upon a period in the history of the world, duiing which the condition of tin; human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without... | |
 | Charles Hay Cameron - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 220
...illustrate my present topic. Towards the end of his third chapter he says. — " If a man 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... | |
 | Philip Gell - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...transition from a golden to an iron age.J And Gibbon says, " If a man were called to fix the period 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... | |
| |
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. 
