| 1878 - 1074 páginas
...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... | |
| Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1878 - 992 páginas
...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... | |
| Robert Dohme - 1879 - 584 páginas
...perhaps rightly ascribed to our master. Of the repute which Filippino enjoyed in Florence, towards the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, we have a proof in the frequent choice made of him to take part in Art committees. His name is here... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 668 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 valor, the intelligence, the energy which, at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 844 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 valor, the intelligence, the energy which, at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 842 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 valor, the intelligence, the energy which, at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 478 páginas
...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. Colomies tells us, that the author had read over the works of Erasmus seven times ; we have positive... | |
| Charles H. Jones - 1880 - 256 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 everything that was worth reading was contained in the writings of the ancient... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1881 - 386 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...institutions eminently favourable to public liberty. These institutions the first Princes of the House of Austria attacked and almost wholly destroyed.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 878 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 valor, the intelligence, the energy which, at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth... | |
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