 | 1870 - 340 pages
...earnest but imperfect fashion to realise those ideas. Gibbon has glorified the age of the Antonines as the " period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous ; " and has planted in it the sceptic's paradise, where " the various... | |
 | Ontario. Council of Public Instruction - 1871 - 506 pages
...just but pielancholy reflection embittered, how«Yer ? th« noblest of 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... | |
 | 1847 - 616 pages
...empire was illustrated, and its limits extended." " In short," says he, " 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 undoubtedly fix on the one designated." An objection to... | |
 | R. J. B. Bosworth - 1994 - 282 pages
...words. They might even adapt a passage of Gibbon to declare that if a man [or woman] 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 [or she] would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed... | |
 | Michael Grant - 1994 - 258 pages
...period among the epochs to which he allotted the highest possible praise. 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... | |
 | James B. Stockdale - 2013 - 252 pages
...described in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as follows: "If a man were called upon 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 accession... | |
 | Norman Davies - 1996 - 1428 pages
...died a nasty death. [PANTA] Yet Rome's Indian summer still lay ahead. '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,' wrote Gibbon, 'he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed... | |
 | M. G. Balme, James Morwood - 1996 - 232 pages
...provincials in his charge. The historian Edward Gibbon remarks of this era: If 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... | |
 | Hilton Hotema - 1998 - 452 pages
...there stands the unchallenged and unchallengeable statement of Gibbon: "If man were called upon 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... | |
 | Ronald Wintrobe - 2000 - 404 pages
...Gibbon and ponder the Age of the Antonines, of which Gibbon (1981) declared: 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... | |
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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. 
