...their power and wealth tempted mariners of foreign birth to their flag. The great discoveries which, in the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, rendered Spain famous, and gave a fictitious vigour to her maritime pretensions, were undertaken and...

...ARTS IN EUROPE IN THE AGE OF LEO X. (1513). IN enumerating those great objects which characterized the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, we must remark the high advancement to which the fine arts attained in Europe in the age of Leo X....

...Utrecht ; the Remonstrants in those Reformers before the Reformation who flourished in the Netherlands at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century ; Geert Grocte, Rudolph Agrícola, Wessel Gansfort, with whom we may associate the famous Erasmus of...

...Utrecht ; the Remonstrants in those Reformers before the Reformation who flourished in the Netherlands at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century ; Geert Groete, Rudolph Agricola, Wessel Gansfort, with whom we may associate the famous Erasmus of...

...publication of Brun de la Montaigne, not been traced farther back than the poet Jehan le Maire, who lived at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. It is, however, found observed, with few exceptions, in the poem before us, which is more than a century...

...Utrecht ; the Remonstrants in those Reformers before the Reformation who flourished in the Netherlands at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century ; Geert Groete, Rudolph Agricola, Wessel Gansfort, with whom we may associate the famous Erasmus of...

...declared guilty. Besides this ordeal (found in Prussia in the seventeenth century and in the neighbouring countries in the first half of the eighteenth), there...place an equally horrid process in criminal cases, namely, the torture, which was originally applied only to slaves, but afterwards to freemen also. Ordeals...

...breath to inspire high thoughts, and the hand of God to establish everywhere the providential order. At the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, society was in a state of excitement. The world was in suspense, as when the statuary is about to create...

...Scott, 'unrivalled by any that Scotland has ever produced,' flourished at the court of James IV. at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. Haying received his education at the university of St. Andrews, where, in 1479, he took the degree...

...treats of the statesman Hieronymus Morone, who exercised so great an influence upon Northern Italy at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. The biography of this man, who was reared in Machiavellian principles, is of more than common interest....