...prints" form a group quite by themselves among the products of the reproductive or multiplying arts at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. The " Coronation of the Virgin," here reproduced (PI. XLVII) from one of the specimens in the Museum,...

...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...valour, the intelligence, the energy which, at the ilose of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, had made the Spaniards the first...

...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...

...rustling of his pinions is always to be heard beforehand. The great revolution was accomplished between the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. The first man to prove himself of genuinely superior genius, capable of giving organic unity to the...

...destruction first became formidable. The ardour with whicli 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...

...were a detested class of people in Italv, 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...

...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....

...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...