 | John Lord - 1883 - 494 pages
...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." This is the view that Gibbon takes of the prosperity of the old Roman world under such princes as the... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1883 - 610 pages
...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.' For during this period fierce wars broke out on the Danube and in the extreme East. Slavery still degraded... | |
 | Burlington B. Wale - 1883 - 568 pages
...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" a period of ninety years ! Thus between the first symbol and the historic fact, to say the least, there... | |
 | Edward Bishop Elliott - 1884 - 408 pages
...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." As to the causes of this happiness and prosperity, he adds, with reference to the five successive emperors... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1884 - 568 pages
...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," i. 47. The same thing is apparent also from a remark of Mr. Gibbon in the general summary which he... | |
 | William Binnington Boyce - 1884 - 676 pages
...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, 96-180 BC The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power under the guidance of... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1909 - 796 pages
...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." This period was from AD 96 to 180, covering the reigns of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - 368 pages
...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...administration were carefully preserved by Nerva, Trojan, Hadrian, and the Antonines, who delighted in the image of liberty, and were pleased with considering... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1890 - 352 pages
...condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, one would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.' The periphrasis here is justified by the momentous nature of the fact to be introduced. Here are some farther... | |
 | John Elliotson Symes - 1890 - 170 pages
...world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. (AD 96 to 180.) But underneath this superficial prosperity there were germs of the disease from which... | |
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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. 
