...nation. Priesthood has never experienced a more violent persecution than that which was set on foot at the end of the sixteenth, and the beginning of the seventeenth century, by the Viceroys of Naples, against those who seemed inclined to receive the Council of Trent. In this...

...speeches on the Royal Titles bill. As a matter of fact, the title of "Emperor" was claimed and borne at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century by Muscovite rulers. This claim was connected with an old ambition of theirs towards the possession...

...Quixote must be aware of the enthusiasm with which romances of chivary were admired by the Spaniards, at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. In the reign of Charles V. this passion became epidemic; for then the art of printing gave general...

...convinced that his time will not be misspent in procuring a few of his more popular pieces — published at the end of the sixteenth, and the beginning of the seventeenth, century. The Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica, p. 320-3, is rich in the earlier and rarer pieces of Southwell ; of...

...in Brabant and Upper Yssel. Dutch commerce began to flourish in the fourteenth century, at Bruges, in Flanders, but, at the end of the fifteenth century,...height, from which it declined somewhat about the cloae of the eighteenth century, till the revolution of 1795 inflicted its death blow, and London,...

...Spain, and the capture of the city, in 1585, drove the riebest merchants to the Dutch Netherlands, ami especially to Amsterdam, whose commerce, at the end...sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century, nx» % to an unparalleled height, from which it declined somewhat about the close of ib.eighteenth...

...of Mazatlan it is of moderate height, but in general not rocky. This gulf contains pearl-fisheries. At the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century a great number of valuable pearls were collected, but this branch of industry soon began to decline,...

...of Mazatlan it is of moderate height, but in general not rocky. This gulf contains pearl-fisheries. At the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century a great number of valuable pearl» were collected, but this hranch of industry soon began to decline,...

...historical than epic, and, as Sismondi says, " it is sometimes merely a rhymed gazette." In lyric poetry at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century we find a brilliant list of writers ; among them, the two brothers Argensola, who wrote with taste...

...devastations of the war of independence with Spain, and the capture of the city, in 1 585, drove the riche.-t merchants to the Dutch Netherlands, and especially to Amsterdam, whose commerce, at the end of Hi« sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century, rose to nn unparalleled height, from which...