...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...

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

...drove the richest merchants to the Dutch Netherlands, and especially to Amsterdam, whose commerce, at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century, rose to an unparalleled height, from which it declined somewhat about the close of the eighteenth century,...

...1585, drove the riche* merchants to the Dutch Netherlands, and especially to Amsterdam, whose commerce, at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century, rose to an unparalleled height, from which it declined somewhat about the close of the eighteenth century,...

...coast is sandy and flat. This low coast continues on the K. side of the gulf to the island of Tiburon, where it begins to be somewhat higher, and continues...the seventeenth century a great number of valuable pearls were collected, but this branch of industry soon began to decline, and was almost entirelyneglected....

...drove the richest merchants to the Dutch Netherlands, and especially to Amsterdam, whose commerce, at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century, rose to an unparalleled height, from which it declined somewhat about the close of the eighteenth century,...

...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...