 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1769 - 506 pages
...and well-founded in hiftory. ' If a man, fays he, were called to fix upon the period in the hiftcry of the world, during which the condition of the human race was moft calamitous and afflifted, he would, without hefitation, name that which elapfed from the death... | |
 | William Robertson - Europe - 1769 - 442 pages
...of Europe, and compleated its fufferings. If a man were called to fix upon the period in the hiftory of the world, during which, the condition; of the human race was moft calamitous and a-fflicted, he would without hefitation, name that which elapfed: from the- death... | |
 | William Robertson - 1777 - 530 pages
...of Europe, and completed its fufferings. If a man were called to fix upon the period in the hiftory of the world, during which the condition of the human race was moft calamitous and afflidted, he would, without hefitation, name that which elapfed from the death... | |
 | William Robertson - Europe - 1777 - 444 pages
...of Europe, and completed its fufferings. If a man Were called to fix upon the period in the hiftory of the world, during which the condition of the human race was moft calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hefitation, name that which elapfed from the death... | |
 | Thomas Salmon, James Tytler - Geography - 1782 - 1252 pages
...They refpciled no age, or fex, or rank. If a man was called to fix upon the period, in, the hiftory of the world during which, the. condition of the human race was mod calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hefitation, name that which elapfed from the death... | |
 | William Robertson - Europe - 1787 - 530 pages
...of Europe, and completed its fufferings. If a man were called to fix upon the period in the hiftory of the world, during which the condition of, the human race was moft calamitous and affli&ed, he would, without hefitation, name that which -elapfed from the death... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1787 - 466 pages
...Antoninus , among thofe of their houfehold gods *'. If a man were called to fix the period in the hiftory of the world, during which the condition of the human race was moft happy and profperous , he would, without hefitation, name that which 'elapfed from the death of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1788 - 638 pages
...readers, is the conclufion of the third chapter. " If a man were called to fix the period in the hiftory of the world, during which the condition of the human race was mod happy and profpefous, he would, without hefitation, name that which eb.rlld from the death of Domitian... | |
 | History - 1788 - 638 pages
...readers, is the conclufion of the third chapter. " If a man were called to fix the period in the hiftory of the world, during which the condition of the human race was moil happy and profperous, he would, without hefitation, name that which elapfed from the death of... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 540 pages
...men met with men as firm and as determined as themselves. If an unbiassed inquirer were called upon to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race in Europe was the most calamitous and afflifted, he would probably, without much hesitation, name that... | |
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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. 
