 | Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 pages
...says Mr. Gibbon, • without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, VOL. II. ° very face of it, it may boast the patronage of a crowd of expositors, and these too respectable.... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 500 pages
...not easy to express his vices with dignity or/ even decency. Tacitus fairly calls him " a hog." sion of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was...but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose character and authority commanded involuntary respect. The forms of the civil administration were carefully... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 500 pages
...Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. i. cb. ,1. 140 History of the Christian Church. [cH. n, sion of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was...but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose character and authority commanded involuntary respect. The forms of the civil administration were carefully... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1819 - 626 pages
...prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman...was governed by absolute power, under the guidance * Vitr llins eonsnmed in mere eating, at least six millions of onr IAODTT in about seven months. It... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 676 pages
..."the vast extent of the Roman empire," as Mr Gibbon has elegantly and extravagantly expressed it, " was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom." Tacitus was born in the middle of the former period, and composed all his writings in the latter period.... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1824 - 522 pages
...prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman...hand of four successive emperors, whose characters * Vitellius consumed in mere eating, at least six millions of our money in about seven mouths. It is... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 608 pages
...prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman...of four successive emperors, whose characters and autliority commanded involuntary respect. The forms of the civil administration were carefully preserved... | |
 | Philip Allwood - Bible - 1829 - 538 pages
...prosperous, he would, " without hesitation, name that, which elapsed " from the death of Domitian, to the accession of " Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman...armies " were restrained by the firm but gentle hand of "five successive emperors, whose characters and " authority commanded involuntary respect. The " forms... | |
 | William Jones - 1831 - 570 pages
...the year 98 to 193, a period of about a century. " The vast extent of the Roman empire," says he, " was governed by absolute power, under the guidance...but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose character and authority commanded involuntary respect. The public administration was conducted by the... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1832 - 642 pages
...prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman...but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose character and authority commanded involuntary respect. The forms of the civil administration were carefully... | |
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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.... 
