...Empire, they deftroyed all Sciences and good Tafte, which began not to be re-eftabliftied till towards the End of the Fifteenth, or the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century. Had we but the Hiftory of Erafmus wrote by Jolt, Praecentor of the Cathedral of Paris, that would be...

...that invention, and its various applications, were the work of a later period ; and it was not until the end of the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century that fire-arms, of different sorts, were brought to what the moderns would call a tolerable degree...

...Sleaford has been annexed, if not regularly and legally united, for a very long period, — perhaps about the end of the fifteenth or the beginning of...round pillars supporting gothic arches, between the na'vc and aisle, and a very slender picturesque tower and spire at the west end. Within its walls is...

...the death of Chaucer and the time of Surrey is the dramatic ballad of the NUTBHOWN MAID. Its date is the end of the fifteenth, or the beginning of the sixteenth century, — its author is unknown. This lovely and unclaimed story possesses a refinement and tenderness of...

...but neat structure, partly of the early English, and partly of the decorated style of architecture; and consists of a nave, with a very narrow aisle on...arches between the nave and aisle, and a Very slender tower and spire at the west end. The chancel, which was greatly delapidated for a long time, was taken...

...about v, so as to produce the observed first and second inequalities of the motion in longitude. At the end of the fifteenth, or the beginning of the sixteenth century, the system of homocentric spheres ascribed to Eudoxus and Calippus was revived by Fra Castorius, with...

...common in the Yem'en. It was imported into Egypt between the years 900 and 910 of the Flight (towards the end of the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century of our era, or a little more than a century before the introduction of tobacco into the East), and...

...began to be stamped, but we shall not be far wrong in fixing the introduction of this embellishment about the end of the fifteenth, or the beginning of the sixteenth century. It is evident the art was known in 1467, as David Casley, before referred to., describes the binding...

...in an ornamental turret, supported by flying buttresses. It is supposed to have been built towards the end of the fifteenth, or the beginning of the sixteenth century. Leland, who was at Malmsbury, in the time of Henry VIII., says, " there is a right, faire, and costely...

...flattened arch is of very uncommon occurrence, but I cannot assign to it a much earlier period than the end of the fifteenth, or the beginning of the sixteenth, century — and that the subject sculptured, so far from being (as Pennant intimates) the interment of our...