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. Cultural Amnesia: America's Future and the Crisis of Memoryde Stephen Bertman - 2000 - 176 páginasPrévia não disponível - Sobre este livro
| 1800 - 586 páginas
...cruelty, faged in çvery part of Europe, and completed its fefFerings. If a man were called to fix upon the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human tace w-as most calamitous ahd afflicted; he Would, without hefitaMuame that which elapfed from •ь... | |
| William Guthrie, John Knox - 1801 - 1204 páginas
...profane. They rcfpefted no age, or lex, or rank. If a man was called to fix upon the period in the hiftory of the world, during which the condition of the human race was the moft calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hefitation, name that which elapfed from the death... | |
| William Robertson - 1804 - 378 páginas
...cruelty, raged in every 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 the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 494 páginas
...those of their household gods |. Happineft If a man were called to fix the period in the •fjbe RO- history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, t * Before he went on the second expedition against the German's, he read lectures of philosophy to... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1807 - 572 páginas
...philosophy be represented as pestiferous and sanguinary, when, as the above-mentioned historian remarks, " if a man were called to fix the period in the history...the world during which the condition of the human r*ce was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation* rame that which elapsed from the... | |
| 1807 - 574 páginas
...pestiferous and sanguinary, when, ля the above-mention*-..; historian remarks, " if a man were calkd to fix the period in the history of the world 'during which the condition of the human r*ce WAS most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the... | |
| Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 páginas
...red horse and a sword are the symbols of slaughter, the commentators unite in observing. 15 P. 233. ' If a man were called to fix the period in the history...human race was most happy and prosperous, he would,' says Mr. Gibbon, • without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the... | |
| William Robertson - 1809 - 516 páginas
...Europe, and completed its sufferings. If a man were called to fix upon the period in the historyof 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... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 542 páginas
...many persons preserved the image of Marcus Antoninus among those of their household gods.' H«ppine»s if a man were called to fix the period in the - history...the condition of the human race was most happy and prosper• Before he went on the second expedition against the Germans, he read lectures of philosophy... | |
| Thomas Branagan - 1812 - 370 páginas
...was sacred and what was profane : They respected no age, nor sect, nor rank. If a man was called upon to fix 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 this crisis. Their conquerors demolished... | |
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