...and what was profane: they respected no age, nor sex, nor rank. If a man was called upon to fix upon the period, in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius...

...cruelty, raged in even- part of Europe, and completed its sufferings. If a man were called to fix upon the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would without hesitation name that which elapsed from the deathofTheodosius...

...cruelly, raged in every part of Europe, and completed ils sufferings. If a man were called to iix upon the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius...

...every part of Europe, and completed its sufferings. If a man were called to fix upon the period in tire history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would without hesitation name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius...

...compression. Drawn out in a * Gibbon remarks, in the third chapter of his History of the Decline and Fall, that " if a man were called to fix the period in the...elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Conunodus." Rev. f Thus M. le Sage, being we suppose a zealous Catholic, designated the glorious iera...

...which elapsed between the death of Domitian, and the accession of Commodus, was incontestibly that, in which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous ; the vast extent of the Roman world being then governed by absolute power, under the guidance of virtue...

...age of Trajan and the Antonines. " If a man were called to fix," says the same elegant historian, " the period in the history of the world during which...that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the acces• Vitellioa consumed in mere eating, at least six minions of our money in about seven months....

...sword of slaughter weary of destroying. " If a man were called," says Dr. Robertson, " to fix upon the period in the history of the world, "during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius...

...sword of slaughter weary of destroying. " If a man were called," says Dr. Robertson, " to fix upon the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius...

...3. 48 Dion, 1. Ixxi. p. 1190. Hist. August. in Avid. Cassio.49 Hist. August. a Marc. Antonin.c. 18. If a man were called to fix the period in the history CHAP. of the world, during which the condition of the human 1IL race was most happy and prosperous,...