...and as such officially entitled to form a troop of actors. Of such companies there were thirteen at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. The Queen herself, who was exceedingly fond of theatrical entertainments, maintained four such troops...

...a few favored and golden ages of the world to conceive and to express pure beauty of form. Such was the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. How were it possible here to give the faintest outline of the entire devotion to art, of the fervid...

...Michelet, France attained this self-consciousness in her contact with the Italy of the Renaissance towards the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. In the case of Scotland this stage was reached in the conflict of the old and the new religions towards...

...deception, and to become wonderful -adepts at that objectionable game. Machiavelli, a statesman who lived at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, whose name has become a proverb for craft and duplicity, wrote a book called " The Prince," in which...

...was, as Mr. Stephens says, "a great service to the cause of humanity." It was a service rendered at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, which we, at the end of the nineteenth, with its shameful record of the degenerate Turk's atrocities,...

...beautiful college in Oxford. The Warden's lodgings on the E. side of the front quadrangle, date from the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. MERTON COLLEGE has the honour of being the oldest in Oxford ; though University and Balliol may be...

...and emotions more akin to our own, with quicker suggestions of freshness and joyThen it was already the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, and even the Sienese could no longer be satisfied with the few painters who remained in their midst....

...Church ; and in the fourteenth century the best organ builders of the world were resident at Vienna. By the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century a high degree of perfection had been attained, especially during the reign of Maximilian I. At the...

...hazard line and the pass line, or one of these lines. But to return to the history of the game. Towards the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, Tennis made considerable progress, owing principally to the improvements in the racket. The ball had...

...fourteenth century, three cities, Lucerne, Zurich, Berne, and two small districts, Zug and Glarus. At the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century Soleure, Bale, Freiburg, Schaffhausen, and Appenzell joined the federation. These were the 13 confederate...