 | Edward William Whitaker - 1795 - 318 стор.
...Mr. Gibbon's tenth chapter we meet with this remark ; " Applying " this authentick fact to the moft correct •*' tables of mortality, it evidently proves, " that above half the people of Alexan" diia had periflied ; and could we ven" ture to extend the analogy to the " other provinces,... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 568 стор.
...of claimants from fourteen to eighty years of age, who remained alive after the reign of Gallienus. Applying this authentic fact to the most correct tables...perished; and could we venture to extend the analogy to other provinces, we might suspect that war, pestilence, and famine, had consumed, in a few years, the... | |
 | John Fry - 1825 - 642 стор.
...depopulated." Mr. Gibbon, indeed, almost suspects, from a document relating particularly to Alexandria, " that war, pestilence, and famine, had consumed, in a few years, the moiety of the human species 1 ;" insomuch, that the wild beasts of the earth were multiplied. In one instance, " five hundred wolves... | |
 | 1831 - 858 стор.
...claimants, from fourteen to fourscore years of age, who remained alive after the age of Gallienus. Applying this authentic fact to the most correct tables...pestilence, and famine, had consumed in a few years tlic moiety of the human species." DMP (To be concluded.) SUICIDE FORBIDDEN BY THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT.... | |
 | George Ayliffe Poole - 1840 - 464 стор.
...of claimants, from fourteen to fourscore years of age, who remained alive after the reign of Gallus. Applying this authentic fact to the most correct tables...suspect, that war, pestilence, and famine, had consumed, iu a few years, the moiety of the human species b ." The courage and the charity of Cyprian shone with... | |
 | Edward Bishop Elliott - 1847 - 606 стор.
...depopulated. And, could we venture to extend the analogy of Alexandria, were statistical tables were kept, to the other provinces, " we might suspect that war,...in a few years, the moiety of the human species." 1 Truly the history must be allowed to agree with the prediction. If the emblems were most terrific,... | |
 | James Armstrong (curate of Ardoyne.) - 1851 - 216 стор.
...claimants, from fourteen to four score years of age, who remained alive after the reign of Gallienus. Applying this authentic fact to the most correct tables...consumed in a few years the moiety of the human species." 3 This analogy, however, cannot be extended to the other provinces; the Alexandrians being always noted... | |
 | Charles Edward Fraser Tytler - 1852 - 328 стор.
...without intermission in every province, every city, and almost every family in the Roman empire." " We might suspect that war, pestilence, and famine...had consumed in a few years the moiety of the human race."—(Gibbon, chap, x.) Five thousand died daily at Rome. Here we have the third agent, " Death."... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 стор.
...claimants, from fourteen to fourscore years of age, who remained alive after the reign of Gallienus. 1 " 2 Applying this authentic fact to the most correct tables...consumed, in a few years, the moiety of the human species. 183 180 Hist. August, p. 177. [Pollio, Gallieni II. c. ").] '" See Cellarius, Geogr. Antiq. torn. ii.... | |
 | Philip Gell - 1854 - 428 стор.
...depopulated." And, after calculating that half the people of Alexandria had perished, "could we," he adds, " venture to extend the analogy to the other provinces,...in a few years the moiety of the human species."* The disorders of Sicily, the tumults of Alexandria, keeping alive a twelve years' civil war, and the... | |
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Applying this authentic fact to the most correct tables of mortality, it evidently proves that above half the people of Alexandria had perished; and could we venture to extend the analogy to the other provinces, we might suspect that war, pestilence,... 
