...fluctuated more than the income derived from the internal taxes of Spain itself. All the causes of Ihe decay of Spain resolve themselves into one cause —...fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century made the Spaniards the first nation in the world, were the fruits of the old institutions of Castile...

...governmentderived 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...fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century mode the Spaniards the first nation in the world, were the fruits of the old institutions of Castile...

...derived from the mines of America fluctuated more than the income derive il from the internal taxes of Spain itself. All the causes of the decay of Spain...institutions eminently favourable to public liberty. Those mstitutions the first Princes of the House of Austna attacked and almost wholly destroyed. Their successors...

...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 encourared by the heads ofthat very church, to which liberal studies were destined to...

...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...

...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 governmentThe valour, the intelligence, the energy, which at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning...

...neither unwelcome nor uninstructive to our readei-s. Among the celebrated doctors that taught in Paris at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, was Lefevre, a native of Etaples, in Picardy. He was a man of humble birth and small stature, but of...

...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...

...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 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...