 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.  The Monthly review. New and improved ser - Page 3661807Full view - About this book
 | Judith Perkins - History - 1995 - 270 pages
...is almost notorious for its harmony. Gibbons estimation has often been cited: "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... | |
 | M. G. Balme, James Morwood - Foreign Language Study - 1996 - 232 pages
...the 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... | |
 | Norman Davies - History - 1996 - 1428 pages
...Augustus had 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... | |
 | John Cairns - Law - 1998 - 276 pages
...declared, "If a man were called to fix the period 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 [An 96] to the accession of Commodus [AD 180]."1 3 Plainly our idea of happiness is far removed... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - History - 1998 - 1094 pages
...preserved the image of Marcus Antoninus among those of their household gods.49 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... | |
 | Hilton Hotema - Science - 1998 - 452 pages
...prejudice, 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 - Business & Economics - 2000 - 404 pages
...Edward 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... | |
 | Jaś Elsner - Art - 1998 - 344 pages
...three phases of Roman history: the triumphant second century (famously described by Edward Gibbon as 'the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous'); the so-called 'crisis' of the third century when military, economic,... | |
 | Johan Hendrik Jacob Van Der Pot - Philosophy - 1999 - 1020 pages
...während der Zeit von 96 n. Chr. bis 180 die goldene Zeit der Menschheitsgeschichte: "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... | |
 | Juvenal - Verse satire, English - 1999 - 308 pages
...(96-8) and Trajan (98-117), the start of the period of which Gibbon wrote 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... | |
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