...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...institutions eminently favourable to public liberty. These institutions the first Princes of the House of Austria attacked and almost wholly destroyed....

...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...

...writer, had finished an ample life of Erasmus, which included a history of the restoration of literature at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. Colomies tells us, that the author had read over the works of Erasmus seven times ; we have positive...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...the transitional state of things in India presented to the grand phenomena of the Revival of Learning at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. Sanscrit and Arabic were immediately proclaimed as the classical languages which were destined to perform...

...add, of letters and commerce, which the biographer of Lorenzo, the magnificent, thus analyses : — ' The close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, comprehend one of those periods of history which are entitled to our minutest study and inquiry. Almost...

...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...

...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...