...the times ! " — Dr. Salmon's " Infallibility of the Church." POPE ALEXANDER VI. AND His TIMES. " At the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century the representative of St. Peter was Alexander VI. It was the era (and it is well to observe this) when...

...for the reform of the Church. First, there was the old party of the Lollards, which revived greatly at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. The persecution of them also revived, and, as usual, persecution only tended to strengthen their cause....

...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...

...real), coats-of-arms, and most exquisite garlands of flowers, fruits, and insects on gold backgrounds. The close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century mark the high-tide of lavish decoration. This date brings into life those missals which contain splendid...

...the motives which carried the European adventurers to our shores. The men who crossed the Atlantic at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century were inflamed, first of all, with the passion of gold-hunting. A second motive was the acquisition...

...glance at the later fortunes of the kingdom, summed up in a sentence the lesson of her decline : " All the causes of the decay of Spain resolve themselves into one cause — bad government." In its process decay is as gradual as regeneration, only the revelation of it, is instantaneous. On...

...antecedents, and the international relations of the Scottish and the English people. The Kings of Scotland at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, partly owing to defects of character and partly in consequence of long minorities, enjoyed far less...

...destruction first became formidable. The ardor 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...

...the motives which carried the European adventurers to our shores. The men who crossed the Atlantic at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century were inflamed, first of all, with the passion of gold-hunting. A second motive was the acquisition...

...about their work. It may be added here, however, that although the great Kaneiye certainly flourished at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, Japanese traditions refer to an earlier expert of the same name whom they distinguish as O-shodai Kaneiye,...