...is forthcoming, we may be allowed therefore to assume that the " long hood " was the prevailing type in England at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries. On the other hand it did not exist among the Italian or Spanish monks as represented...

...its equal in the annals oí the world. Such was the constitution of Christendom, as fully developed at the end of the fifteenth, and beginning of the sixteenth, century. " The Church of Rome," said Adam Smith, "is the most formidable combination that was ever formed against...

...geographical discoveries were made at all comparable in importance to those which astounded mankind at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century, neither were there any similar conquests to those of Mexico and Peru to record. But the development...

...School of the Bellinis (i). The brothers De Gregoriis already frequently mentioned - who were, indeed, at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century the great produ cers of illustrated books - published in 1495, in a folio volume, the Italian version...

...one of the few good results to set against the many evils ensuing on the French invasions of Italy at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century. It is still in a large measure a domestic industry, and it is noteworthy that both at Lyons and St....

...decades, there is, to say the least, room and reason for a new statement of the elements of English life at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century. What men have done for the natural sciences, for experimental psychology, for the history of commerce,...

...attribute the origin of the fete of La Rosiere, in that country, to Medard, bishop of Noyou, who lived at the end of the fifteenth, and beginning of the sixteenth century, during the reign of Clovis. That bishop, who was also Lord of Salency, had established a fund, giving...

...of Mandragola, a bitter satire upon the clergy. With all its vices and corruption, the Roman Court, at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century, was the meeting-place of all the distinguished men of Europe, and must be regarded as the centre of...

...high seas. Page 141. — i. la monarquía de España. It was about this time, that is, approximately, at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century, under Philip II., that the Spanish power reached its culmination over dominions where " the sun never...

...that mentions the red and white rose earlier than Shakespeare is the Scotch poet, Dunbar, who wrote at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century, and he says : — Nor hold none other flower in sic dainty As the fresh rose of color red and white....