...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...

...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...

...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...

...writer, had finished an ample life of Erasmus, which included a history of the restoration of literature at the close of the 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...

...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 de Bastidas,...

...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 de Bastidas,...

...writer, had finished an ample life of Erasmus, which included a history of the restoration of literature at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. Colomies tells us, that the author had read over the works of Erasmus seven times; we have positive...

...writer, had finished an ample life of Erasmus, which included a history of the restoration of literature at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. Colomies tells us, that the author had read over the works of Erasmus seven times; we have positive...

...writer, had finished an ample life of Erasmus, which included a history of the restoration of literature at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. Colomies tells us, that the author had read over the works of Erasmus seven times; we have positive...

...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...