...whom he at that time appears to have intended for his historian. The same hostility to manuscripts, as may be easily imagined, has occurred, perhaps more...tells us, that the author had read over the works oi Erasmus seven times; we have positive evidence that the faie. The Rev. William Graham, the surviving...

...more frequently, on the continent. I shall furnish one considerable fact. A French canon, Claude Joly, a bold and learned writer, had finished an ample life...Erasmus seven times ; we have positive evidence that the MS. was finished for the press ; the Cardinal de Noailles would examine the work himself ; this important...

...destruction, first became formidable. The ardour with which men betook themselves to liberal studies would be exhibited in that mode in which alone they can be exhibited jus was zealously encouraped by the heads of that 'very church, to which liberal studies were destined...

...resolve themselves into one cause, bad government. The valour, the intelligence, the energy which, at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, had made the Spaniards the first nation in the world, were the fruits of the old institutions of Castile...

...introduction of printing by Caxton, and the consequent diffusion of classical literature in England, about the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, the language remained nearly stationary ; but at that period a revolution commenced, which was promoted...

...also pp. 9, 10, 46, 53. to whom Spain owes so large a debt of gratitude.* The Castilian scholars of the close of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth century, may take rank with their illustrious contemporaries of Italy. They could not indeed achieve such brilliant...

...neither unwelcome nor uninstructive to our readei-s. Among the celebrated doctors that taught in Paris at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, was Lefevre, a native of Etaples, in Picardy. He was a man of humble birth and small stature, but of...

...introduction of printing by Caxton, and the consequent diffusion of classical literature in England, about the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, the language remained nearly stationary ; but at that period a revolution commenced, which was promoted...

...barbarous. " The first instance to which I refer is the great revival of letters among the Western nations at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. At that time almost everything that was worth reading was contained in the writings of the ancient...

...barbarous. " The first instance to which I refer is the great revival of letters among the Western nations at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. At that time almost everything that was worth reading was contained in the writings of the ancient...