...due proportion. We know that this was the happy state of the great centres of Italian civilisation in the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries. The princes of Florence of the house of the Medici were at the same time the princes of trade and finance....

...towns in Europe the Latin ;. names given to some of them belong. But though the misfortunes of Italy in the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries greatly diminished the commerce and manufactures of the cities of Lomhardy and Tuscany, those countries...

...of the Douglas family, of which Lady Glammis's brother, the Earl of Angus, was the head. She diefl much pitied by the people, who seem to have thought...themselves at a small price to the Author of 111, who having commonly to do with women, drives a very hard bargain. On the contrary, when he was pleased...

...attempting James's life by poison, with a view to the restoration of the Douglas family, of whicfi Lady Glammis's brother, the Earl of Angus, was the...themselves at a small price to the Author of 111, who, having commonly to do with women, drives a very hard bargain. On the contrary, when he was pleased...

...reckoned among the most populous and best cultivated countries in Europe, though the troubles of Italy in the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, greatly diminished their commerce and manufactures. The great trade of Antwerp, Ghent, and Bruges,...

...foreign artists were engaged ; and we find that foreign artists chiefly were employed even in Spain in the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, and that in England the same course was followed during that period, and down even to a much later...

...twelve women of obscure rank, and three or four wizards, or warlocks as they were termed, were burnt at Edinburgh, to give a colour to the Earl's guilt....themselves at a small price to the Author of 111, who, having commonly to do with women, drives a very hard bargain. On the contrary, when he was pleased...

...year 1537, a noble matron fell a victim to a similar charge. This was Janet Douglas, Lady Clammis, who, with her son, her second husband, and several...themselves at a small price to the Author of 111, who, having commonly to do with women, drives a very hard bargain. On the contrary, when he was pleased...

...Treasurers of the Kings of Scotland, relating to royal pilgrimages to the shrine of S. Ninian at Whithern, in the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, which throw much light on the devotional and social habits of the day. The first two entries refer...

...increased ; or it may have been owing partly to the one and partly to the other of those two circumstances. In the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, the greater part of Europe was approaching towards a more settled form of government than it had enjoyed...