 | Isaac Disraeli - 1866 - Страниц: 570
...more frequently, on the continent. 1 shall furnish one considerable fact. A French canon, Claude Joly, a bold and learned writer, had finished an ample life...Erasmus seven times ; we have positive evidence that the MS. was finished for the press: the Cardinal de Noailles would examine the work himself; this important... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - Страниц: 704
...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... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1866 - Страниц: 280
...vengeance upon them. Another phenomenon of the opposite kind was seen not in England but in Italy, at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. A Dominican monk appeared not merely as the impugner of ecclesiastical luxury and oppression — that... | |
 | 1866 - Страниц: 900
...known was that put forth under the name of " Insinuations DivintB Pietatis," by Lanspergius, who wrote at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. The work has appeared in several of the modern languages ; but the French translation, by which it... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1867 - Страниц: 766
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - Страниц: 704
...Spain resolve themselves into one cause, bad government. The valour, the intelligence, the energy which at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, had made the Spaniards the first nation in the world, were the fruits of the old institution of Castile... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1872 - Страниц: 644
...Latin, and Cardinal Ximenes; he left behind Oriental tongues were collated. The Castilian scholars of the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century may take rank with their illustrious contemporaries of Italy. They could not, indeed, achieve such... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge, William Fayal Clarke, Albert Gallatin Lanier, Maurice R. Robinson - 1884 - Страниц: 526
...speak here of the authors and scholars of the old city ; but of its artists something must be said. At the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, besides Albert Durer, there were Peter Vischer and his five sons, sculptors and bronze casters ; Adam... | |
 | William Schaw Lindsay - 1874 - Страниц: 746
...the following century, were extended with great advantage to Venice, Genoa, and Aragon ; but, towards the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century Bruges was surpassed byAntwerp, where, after the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape, Flemish... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1875 - Страниц: 840
...this ;• time, the peninsula has continued to be divided into the two kingdoms of Spain and Portugal. The close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century form the most splendid era in the annals of these countries. Under John II. (1481-1495), Portugal rose... | |
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Western nations at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. 
