| Charles Edward Trevelyan - 1838 - 270 pages
...the knowledge which at that time existed in the world. After this came the great revival of learning, at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries. At that period, the historian Robertson observes, " all the modern languages were in a state extremely... | |
| Elizabeth Stone - 1841 - 446 pages
...sentences drawn from the prophets or the psalms. These tapestries appear to have been the production of the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries, denoting in the architecture and costumes more the reigns of Charles VIII. and Louis XL, than of Louis... | |
| Elizabeth Stone, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - 1841 - 424 pages
...sentences drawn from the prophets or the psalms. These tapestries appear to have been the production of the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries, denoting in the architecture and costumes more the reigns of Charles VIII. and Louis XI., than of Louis... | |
| 1861 - 1148 pages
...intercourse with China. The rediscovery, so to speak, of the empire was one of the occurrences which marked the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries, that epoch so rich in great events, when the invention of printing, the application of the compass... | |
| 1878 - 892 pages
...any attempt to corrupt the text since that period must at once have been detected and exposed. It was at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries that the Word of God was committed to " the immortal custody of the Press." Prior to that time, copies... | |
| 1903 - 664 pages
...First Report of the Postmaster-General (1855) it is stated that the words " haste, post haste," occur on the backs of private letters at the close of the fifteenth and at the beginning of the sixteenth century and it is therefore inferred that the post was not at that... | |
| 1856 - 706 pages
...individuals for hire, so that a messenger might travel post, ie by relays : and as ' Haste, Post, Haste,' is found written on the backs of private letters at the...fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries, it may be inferred that the use of this mode of conveyance was not restricted to the correspondence... | |
| Adolph Ludvig Køppen - 1854 - 276 pages
...power of the feudal lords, and which mainly contributed to the dissolution of the feudal system toward the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries. The nobles in some countries, such as France, fcecaine subjects. The cities in the Low Countries and... | |
| Adolph Ludvig Køppen - 1854 - 274 pages
...power of the feudal lords, and which mainly contributed to the dissolution of the feudal system toward the close of -the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries. The nobles in some countries, such as France, became subjects. The cities in the Low Countries and... | |
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