...a fecular prince, who was pofleffed of more riches and dominion than mofl of chriftian princes. -In the end of the fourteenth, and the beginning of the fifteenth century, learning began to reviveMen began to read the Roman aad -Greek claffics, from which fources they found...

...L?tinitatis, Tom. IV. p. 847. 10. Jean Charlier de Gerfou was chancellor of the univerfity of Paris at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century. When, or where, his MonotefTaron was firft printed I know not : but all his works were publiftied at...

...was kept, above three years; and, at length, was ransoned with the sums furnished by his family. Ai the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century, the grand-masters were frequently obliged to quit Rhodes, and to appear at the court of the popes, who...

...with whom they entered into negociations. The most flourishing period of the Hanseatic league was, at the end of the fourteenth) and the beginning of the fifteenth century. It then presumed to declare and to carry on offensive and defensive wars with the sovereigns of Europe,...

...Germans, Flemings and Dutch began to engrave on wood and copper' ; but the previous advances were gradual. The inscriptions in relief upon monuments and altars, in the cloisters and over church-porches, served as models for block' The progress of early engraving and ornamental printing...

...Dutch, began at the same time to engrave on wood and copper, but the previous advances had been gradual. The inscriptions, in relief, upon monuments and altars,...for block-printing. The letters upon painted windows greatly resemble those in the books of images. The invention of cards was an intermediate step. Bullet,...

...Dutch, hegan at the same time to engrave on wood and copper, but the previous advances had been gradual. The inscriptions, in relief, upon monuments and altars,...for block-printing. The letters upon painted windows greatly resemble those in the books of images. The invention of cards was an intermediate step. Bullet,...

...themselves more with the art of Sculpture, than with that to which our inquiry is more immediately directed. The inscriptions in relief upon monuments and altars, in the cloisters, and over church-porches, served as models or designs for block-printing ; and the text on painted windows is...

...bound to obedience. It remained to acquire a similar power over bishops ; and this was effected in the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century, when the pontiffs obtained, by means of reservations, the power of appointing to all bishoprics, or...

...that there have been rival Popes and unhappy schisms in the church, particularly one great schism, at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century : still the true Pope was always clearly discernible at the times we are speaking of, and in the end...