 | William Roscoe - 1795 - 504 pages
...LORENZO DE' MEDICI. O DK' MKDICI, ILL! AM ROSCOE l L :H| ;ii :H| ;ii :H| i :H| ;ii al S *! PREFACE. THE close of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth century, comprehend one of those periods of history which are entitled to our minutest study and inquiry. Almost... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...138 SIR JOHN HAWKINS.* [1520—1598.] _l HE improvements in navigation made by the Spaniards toward the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, and their visible effects in aggrandising that kingdom, excited in other nations a noble ardour to... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...county, SIR JOHN HAWKINS * [1520—1598.] JL HE improvements in navigation made by the Spaniards toward the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, and their visible effects in aggrandising that kingdom, excited in other nations a noble ardour to... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...manuscripts, as may be easily imagined, has occurred, perhaps more frequently, on the continent. I shall furnish one considerable fact. A French canon,...fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. Colonies tells us, that the author had read over the works of Erasmus seven times ; we have positive... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1829 - 500 pages
...and in the simplicity and confiding youth of nations who attempt to construct their social edifice. At the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, Europe saw only, in the parts of the New World discovered by Columbus, Ojeda, Vespucci, and Rodrigo... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1829 - 498 pages
...and in the simplicity and confiding youth of nations who attempt to construct their social edifice. At the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, Europe saw only, in the parts of the New World discovered by Columbus, Ojeda, Vespucci, and Rodrigo... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 516 pages
...Spain resolve themselves into one cause, bad government. The valor, the intelligence, the energy, which at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, made the Spaniards the first nation in the world, were the fruits of the old institutions of Castile... | |
 | George Peacock - 1841 - 286 pages
...under restrictions and conditions, which confined them almost exclusively to the regents only. Towards the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, printed books had become so greatly multiplied, and their prices so much reduced, as to be placed within... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Spain - 1842 - 504 pages
...pioneers of ancient learning, to whom Spain owes so large a debt of gratitude.f The Castilian scholars of the close of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth century, may take rank with their illustrious contemporaries of * Barbosa, Bibliotheca Lusitana, (Lisboa Occidental,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...destruction first became formidable. The ardour with which men betook themselves to liberal studies, at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, was zealously encouraged by the heads of that very church to which liberal studies were destined to... | |
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Western nations at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. 
