...Saxony and Thuringia, against the oppressive taxes and services under which they languished. As early as the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th centuries, opposition was made to the bond-services in some places, and to the insupportable exactions of the...

...writings of Cato, Columella, Vitruvius, and others, was used in a new form, on the dawn of literature in the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th centuries, in the works on husbandry generally, by Crescentius in Italy (1471), by Fitzherbert in England (1523), Etienne...

...walls, under the superintendence of a Bachelor or Master. When, however, with the revival of learning at the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th centuries, these degrees and the knowledge requisite for their attainment became objects of contempt, the students...

...from the contemplation of figures wholly unclothed. Still it must be owned that such a jealousy of the arts might reasonably exist in Italy at the end of...when Christianity can hardly be said to have existed in theory*. Art, however, although not the corrupter, was, like everything else, corrupted by the poison...

...from the contemplation of figures wholly unclothed. Still it must be owned that such a jealousy of the arts might reasonably exist in Italy at the end of...centuries, in the days of Alexander VI., Julius II., aud Leo X.; when all the abominations of heathenism prevailed at Rome in practice, and when Christianity...

...s. 82, 84. CHAPTER H. EARLY SPANISH MASTERS. THE conviction that no art worth notice existed before the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th centuries, has probably deprived us of information with reference to the early history of painting in Spain, which...

...facade before us is a restored copy of a portion of the H6tel Bourgtheroulde, at Rouen. It was built at the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th centuries. The bas-relief before us represents the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and the memorable meeting (in 1620)...

...derived from the spirits of another world. Manlius Virus and Conrad Gessner affirm, that Faust lived at the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century, whilst Auerbach's cellar, in Leipsic, bears also documentary evidence of his having resided...

...Altogether is almost certain that ' the plague ' which so often destroyed the English and Spanish troops at the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th centuries was in reality yellow fever. A disease bearing the character of yellow fever appeared in 1618 among...

...and it is almost certain that ' the plague ' which so often destroyed the English and Spanish troops at the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th centuries •was in reality yellow fever. A disease bearing the character of yellow fever appeared in 1618 among...