 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1899 - 668 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 47 Before he went on the second expedition against the Germans, he read lectures of philosophy to the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1900 - 398 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...absolute power under the guidance of virtue and wisdom." Nevertheless the historian sees "in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption.... | |
 | Algernon Sidney Crapsey - Church and state - 1905 - 344 pages
...and 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...and authority commanded involuntary respect."* The Emperors to whom the historian refers in this passage are Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1906 - 480 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...characters and authority commanded involuntary respect. * Before he went on the second expedition against the Germans, he read lectures of philosophy to the... | |
 | Civilization - 1907 - 516 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...absolute power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom." This surpassingly happy condition was ended by Commodus, who went mad, like Nero and Caligula, with... | |
 | German literature - 1913 - 582 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...absolute power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom." (Decl. and Fall I, p. 78.) Von Voltaire möchte ich einige sehr lehrreiche, an Friedrich II. gerichtete... | |
 | Max freiherr von Waldberg - German literature - 1913 - 374 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...absolute power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom." (Decl. and Fall I, p. 78.) Von Voltaire möchte ich einige sehr lehrreiche, an Friedrich II. gerichtete... | |
 | Samuel Angus - Christianity - 1914 - 282 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...absolute power under the guidance of virtue and wisdom." Rome ruled the world to its subjects' advantage by ignoring matters of infinitesimal detail which were... | |
 | Law - 1918 - 1048 pages
...and 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 character and authority commanded involuntary respect. The forms of... | |
 | Chapman Cohen - Christianity - 1919 - 122 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...absolute power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom. K / j The armies were restrained by the firm but gentle hand ; of four successive emperors whose character... | |
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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.... 
