...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...

...devastations of the war of independence with Spain, and the capture of the city, in 1585, drove the richest merchants to the Dutch Netherlands, and especially...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...

...devastations of the war of independence with Spain, and the capture of the city, in 1585, drove the richest merchants to the Dutch Netherlands, and especially...somewhat about the close of the eighteenth century, till tlie revolution of 1795 inflicted its d'eath blow, and London, the rival of Amsterdam, rose to he queen...

...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,...

...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,...

...devastations of the war of independence with Spain, and the capture of the city, in 1585, drove the richest merchants to the Dutch Netherlands, and especially...its death blow, and London, the rival of Amsterdam, ro«e to be queen of the ocean, on the ruins of Dutch commerce. Since 1813, the commerce of the Netherlands...