 | 1816 - 696 lehte
...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... | |
 | 1896 - 818 lehte
...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... | |
 | Friedrich Bouterwek - 1823 - 646 lehte
...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... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1825 - 474 lehte
...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... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1832 - 632 lehte
...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... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 lehte
...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,... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1832 - 650 lehte
...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,... | |
 | 1836 - 528 lehte
...coast is sandy and Hat. This low roast continues on the E. side of the gulf to the island of Tiburón, where it begins to be somewhat higher, and continues...the seventeenth century a great number of valuable pearl» were collected, but this hranch of industry soon began to decline, and was almost entirely... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1837 - 528 lehte
...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,... | |
 | 1850 - 536 lehte
...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... | |
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Cherbury gives an interesting account of the education of a highly-born youth at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. 
