...fyt " THOSE grave and sober actors : " — in such terms are the English plajera constantly spoken of at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century. They have had scant justice rendered to them since, in spite of this verdict ; and if there be any...

...discovery of fixed air affords no second exception to this rule ; for it is said that Van Helmont, who flourished at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeeth century, had observed its evolution during fermentation, and given it the name of c/as silvestre,...

...representations which arose out of the prodigious magnificence of the Medici feasts at Florence, towards the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century, and which offered to Italy ' the first apparition of a new art o ? ' This music, founded upon a careful...

...representations which arose out of the prodigious magnificence of the Medici feasts at Florence, towards the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century, and which offered to Italy ' the first apparition of a new art6?' This music, founded upon a careful study...

...Plutarch, Sallust, and Cicero. Joseph da E 66 Jean Raulin's Style. Barzia was the Bishop of Cadiz, and flourished at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century; but he belongs to the mediaeval type. His style was generally denunciatory. Jacques Marchant, on the...

...whatever shape.1 The science made some progress in the hands of Francis Suarez, a Jesuit of Granada, who flourished at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century. One of the books of his " Tractatus de Legibus ac Deo Legislatore " is devoted to the law of nature...

...writings. I will not trouble the reader with a list of the names, the bearers of which wrote on Sponges at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth Century, some declaring them to be animals, others to be plants, and others again taking them for concentrated...

...Sidney: it also expressed in his latter days the deterioration which took place in the national character at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century. He felt, indeed, that " a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things ;" he saw that pride...

...between the Eepublic and the Pope which nearly led to Venice joining the Huguenot or Protestant movement at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century. I had the good fortune to find, a short time ago at Venice, the original decree issued by the Doge...

...in the Isle of Skye. His son, Neil, with many members of the Nicholson family, migrated to America at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century. The spelling of the family name has undergone many changes, which, with the family pedigree, are carefully...