 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pagina’s
...punish it. Tacit. Annal. vi. 14.' But a few pages before we read, 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... | |
 | Selina Bunbury - 1828 - 372 pagina’s
...period of more than fourscore years : speaking of which, Mr. 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... | |
 | William Robertson - 1829 - 628 pagina’s
...ravages with such inconsiderate cruelty, raged in > very part of Europe, and completed its sufferings. If a man were called to fix upon the period in the history of the world, during which (he condition of the human rare was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, wirhout hesitation, ñamo... | |
 | Robert Taylor - 1829 - 466 pagina’s
...power of their worst enemy to attaint the purity of their administration. " 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... | |
 | Philip Allwood - 1829 - 538 pagina’s
...account the persecuted state of the Christians through the whole of this space,—" 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... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 770 pagina’s
...they now became subjected. It is a remark of Dr. Robertson, " that 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, he would without hesitation name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius... | |
 | Hallifield Cosgayne O'Donnoghue - 1830 - 428 pagina’s
...ravages with such inconsiderate cruelty, raged in every part of Europe, and completed its sufferings. If a man were called to fix upon the period in the...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... | |
 | William Robertson - 1830 - 662 pagina’s
...ravages with such inconsiderate cruelty, raged in very part of Europe, and completed its sufferings. If a man were called to fix upon the period in the...the world, during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, lie would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from... | |
 | Edward Irving - 1831 - 470 pagina’s
...ravages with such inconsiderate cruelty, raged in every part of Europe and completed its sufferings. If a man were called to fix upon the period in the...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... | |
 | William Jones - 1831 - 570 pagina’s
...and the sword of slaughter was weary of destroying. " If a man were called," says Dr. Robertson, " to fix upon the 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... | |
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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. 
