 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1853 - 488 páginas
...; and Bembo has celebrated them in those historical pages which add lustre to the glory of Venice. At the close of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth century, Europe saw, in those parts of the New World discovered by Columbus, Ojeda, Vespucci, and Kodrigo de... | |
 | conte Cesare Balbo - 1852 - 308 páginas
...race, as has been done by the invention of printing. Its beneficial effects, great as they were towards the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, made a sensible though slow progress through the three following centuries ; but in our own times they... | |
 | Charles Hay Cameron - 1853 - 220 páginas
...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 every thing that was worth reading was contained in the writings of the ancient... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1853 - 468 páginas
...bulls; and Bembo has celebrated them in those historical pages which add lustre to the glory of Venice. At the close of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth century, Europe saw, in those parts of the New World discovered by Columbus, Ojeda, Vespucci, and Eodrigo de... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 430 páginas
...government derived from the mines of America fluctuated more than the income derived from the internal taxes of Spain itself. All the causes of the decay of Spain resolve themselves into one cause—bad government. The valour, the intelligence, the energy, which at the close of the fifteenth... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1854 - 460 páginas
...of ancient learning, to whom Spain owes so large a debt of gratitude. (2) 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 brilliant... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1854 - 718 páginas
...also pp. 9, 10, 46, 53. to whom Spain owes so large a debt of gratitude.* 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 brilliant... | |
 | David Mather Masson - 1855 - 370 páginas
...controversy between Denmark and Germany. Again, however, the Union of Calmar fell into abeyance.; and at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, John and Christian II., the successors of Christian I., were engaged in a struggle for the maintenance... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 752 páginas
...government derived from the mines of America fluctuated more than the income derived from the internal taxes of Spain itself. All the causes of the decay of Spain resolve themselves into one cause—bad government. The valour, the intelligence, the energy, which at the close of the fifteenth... | |
 | John William Donaldson - 1856 - 282 páginas
...under restrictions and conditions, which confined them almost exclusively to the regents only. Towards the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, printed books had become so greatly multiplied, and their prices so much reduced, as to be placed within... | |
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The valour, the intelligence, the energy which, at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century... 
