| 1816 - 696 pages
...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 pages
...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 of... | |
| Friedrich Bouterwek - 1823 - 646 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 600 pages
...of Mazatlan it is of moderate height, but in general not rocky. This gulf contains pearl-fisheries. At the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century a great number of valuable pearls were collected, but this branch of industry soon began to decline,... | |
| 1836 - 528 pages
...of Mazatlan it is of moderate height, but in general not rocky. This gulf contains pearl-fisheries. At the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century a great number of valuable pearl» were collected, but this hranch of industry soon began to decline,... | |
| Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1837 - 528 pages
...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,... | |
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