...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),...

...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...

...unclothed. Still it must be owned that such a jealousy of the arts might reasonably exist in Italy at the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th centuries, in the days of Alexander VI., Julius II., and Leo X. ; when all the abominations of heathenism prevailed...

...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...

...unclothed. Still, it must be admitted that such a jealousy of the fine arts might reasonably exist in Italy at the end of the 15th, and the beginning of the 16th centuries, in the days of Alexander VI., Julius II., and Leo X. ; when all the abominations of heathenism prevailed...

...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...

...attempts to make myself as independent as my prince. The spirit of the policy of the German princes at the end of the 15th- and the beginning of the 16th- century is now to be characterized. Siannerljerr (mit •Kein ©djfofj unb gelb, idj mad)' eS fdjutbenfrei....