...introduction of printing by Caxton, and the consequent diffusion of classical literature in England about the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, the language remained nearly stationary ; but at that period a revolution commenced, which was promoted...

...and but a rift, in the cloud that hides from us to a great extent the life of the period, embracing the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century; at all events it .vividly pictures to us scenes in a provincial town in times with which our acquaintance...

...destruction first became formidable. The ardour with which men betook themselves to liberal studies ock was zealously encouraged by the heads of that very church to which liberal studies were destined to...

...prints" form a, group quite by themselves among the products of the reproductive or multiplying arts at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. The " Coronation of the Virgin," hero reproduced ( PI. XLVII) from one of the specimens in * See "...

...prints" form a group quite by themselves among the products of the reproductive or multiplying arts at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. The " Coronation of the Virgin," here reproduced (PI. XLVII) from one of the specimens in the Museum,...

...destruction first became formidable. The ardour with which men betook themselves to liberal studies, at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, was zealously encouraged by the heads of that very Church to which liberal studies were destined to...

...the motives which carried the European adventurers to our shores. The men who crossed the Atlantic at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century were inflamed, first of all, with the passion of gold-hunting. A second motive was the acquisition...

...resolve themselves into one cause, bad government. The valour, the intelligence, the energy which, re readily to the authority of the native Prince, whom they had made the Spaniards the first nation in the world, were the fruits of the old institutions of Castile...

...were a detested class of people in Italy, as they afterwards were in France and other countries. About the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, Macchiavelli testifies to the influence which public credit at that time had on the course of political...

...Protestant tradition, and no exception can be taken to my witnesses. First, for the Court of Rome. At the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century the representative of St. Peter was Alexander VI. It was the era (and it is well to observe this) when...