Edward Gibbon Quote

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 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume the First (ed. 1776)


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...

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...

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...

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...