...for composing a complete history of the Reformation in that * The celebrated Jesuit Skarga, who lived at the end of the sixteenth, and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries, complains that more than two thousand Romanist churches were converted into Protestant ones. country...

...with bronze drapery. This artist effected some changes in the process of casting in bronze. [BRONZE.] At the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries the sculptors aimed chiefly at fine and curious execution. The works of that time exhibit very higr,...

...with bronze drapery. This artist effected some changes in the process of casting in bronze. [BRONZE.] At the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries the sculptors aimed chiefly at fine and curious execution. The works of that time exhibit very high...

...salvation, and enrolling under thebanner of Christ the men of every race and language. When, however, at the end of the sixteenth, and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries, new apostles appeared in those countries, they found none of the Christians of the middle ages. Those...

...of the Seven Champions of Christendom " is the work of Richard Johnson, a ballad-maker of some note at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries. Seven Cities, Island of. See ISLAND OF THE SliVEN CITIES. Seven -hilled City. One of the names bv which...

...intended to make the most of their merits by claiming the chief say in all ecclesiastical matters. But at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries, Romanism was in a more fluid state than it is at present, and they met with many difficulties in getting...

...Melanchthon is stated as one of the main causes that led to the decline of the Peripatetic Philosophy at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries ; for, Melanchthon's followers and pupils getting involved in some of the intricate religions controversies...

...allusions obscure, the difficulties offered by his sonnets to the translator will be readily conceived. IV. At the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries, philosophy took a new point of departure among the Italians, and all the fundamental ideas which have...

...afterwards caused a prodigious depreciation of silver, and it appears from the accounts of Eton College that at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries wheat ranged in the Windsor market from thirty to fifty shillings a quarter.1 Even the prices of 1562,...

...afterwards caused a prodigious depreciation of silver, and it appears from the accounts of Eton College that at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries wheat ranged in the Windsor market from thirty to fifty shillings a quarter.1 Even the prices of 1562,...