 | Thomas Branagan - 1812 - 370 pages
...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... | |
 | William Robertson - 1813 - 598 pages
...ravages with such inconsiderate cruelty, raged in even- 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... | |
 | John Adams - 1813 - 324 pages
...was sacred, and what was profane: they respected no age, nor sex, nor rank. If a man was called upon 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... | |
 | William Robertson - 1813 - 602 pages
...inconsiderate cruelly, raged in every part of Europe, and completed ils sufferings. If a man were called to iix 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... | |
 | William Jones - 1816 - 500 pages
...people, and the sword of slaughter 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... | |
 | William Jones - 1816 - 500 pages
...people, and the sword of slaughter 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... | |
 | William Jones - 1816 - 492 pages
...age of Trajan and the Antonines. " If a man were called to fix," says the same elegant historian, " 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 - 1817 - 534 pages
...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... | |
 | 1832 - 1102 pages
...forefathers had reached the very lowest point of depression. " If," says a celebrated reviewer of history, " a man were called to fix upon the period in the history...the world during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed, from... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 356 pages
...of destruction. Famine and pestilence 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, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius... | |
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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. 
