...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...

...doubt the fame of the Great Mogul Akbar's hunting establishment had reached him. For Akbar, who lived at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, is said to have kept over one thousand leopards for the chase. The sportsmen, however, are in European...

...the times ! " — Dr. Salmon's " Infallibility of the Church." POPE ALEXANDER VI. AND His TIMES. " 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...

...for the reform of the Church. First, there was the old party of the Lollards, which revived greatly at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. The persecution of them also revived, and, as usual, persecution only tended to strengthen their cause....

...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...

...real), coats-of-arms, and most exquisite garlands of flowers, fruits, and insects on gold backgrounds. The close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century mark the high-tide of lavish decoration. This date brings into life those missals which contain splendid...