...Crowe as to his teachers, as stated in the introduction. — ED. and Padua and other environs, was, at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, under the immediate influence of Mantegna. That Mantegna was one of the masters who helped to mould...

...time to the present, education in the entire Mohammedan world has been in a most depressed condition. At the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, a series of remarkable events indicated the entrance of mankind into a new period of its history. One...

...barbarous. " The first instance to which I refer, is the great revival of letters among the western nations at the close of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth, century. At that time almost everything that was worth reading was contained in the writings of the ancient...

...barbarous. • The n'rst instance to which I refer is the great revival of letters among the Western nations at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. At that time almost every thing, that was worth reading was contained in the writings of the ancient...

...barbarous. The first instance to which I refer is the great revival of letters among the Western nations f permanent union ; and a primary object of such a national institution s At that time almost every thing that was worth reading was contained in the writings of the ancient...

...enough in its lustre to have hatched the eggs of a stork. The paintings of the German and Dutch masters, at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, shtiw what an influence this material had upon painting. This is particularly true in the works of...

...more frequently, on the continent. I shall furnish one considerable fact. A French canon, Claude Joly, a bold and learned writer, had finished an ample life of Erasmus, which included a history of tho restoration of literature at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century....

...destruction first became formidable. The ardor 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...

...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 institutions of Castile...

...destruction first became formidable. The ardor 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...