"If a man were called to fix the……" — Edward Gibbon

If a man were called to fix the period in the history… - Edward Gibbon
"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."

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