...the sirname of Lambert. It does not appear when he was born, though it may be presumed to have been about the end of the fifteenth, or beginning of the sixteenth century, as he suffered for the cause of truth in the year 1,538. We have not likewise the precise place of...

...Weidler f and Chambers J are, doubtless, both mistaken when they place the invention of automatous clocks about the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century. The latter says, It is certain that the art of constructing clocks, such as those now in use, was first...

...of romances, the first editions were printed without date, but were for the most part published in the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century. The period of the composition of some of them can be ascertained with more accuracy than that of most of...

...Basques (inhabitants of Biscay) were the fifst Europeans who sought the whales in their porthcm retreats, about the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century. Towards the close of the latter, the English first attempted this fishery ; for, according, to Hackluyt,...

...the sirname of Lambert. It does not appear when he was born, though it may be presumed to have been about the end of the fifteenth, or beginning of the sixteenth century, as he suffered for the cause of truth in the year 1538. We have not likewise the precise place of his...

...the sirname of Lambert. It does not appear when he was born, though it may be presumed to have been about the end of the fifteenth, or beginning of the sixteenth century, as he suffered for the cause of truth in the year 1538. We have not likewise the precise place of his...

...Weidler f and Chambers ^ are, doubtless, both mistaken when they place the invention of automatons clocks about the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century. The latter says, It is certain that the art of constructing clocks, such as those now in use, was first...

...nations; and it was not usual for the more civilized states to employ such commercial agents until about the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century (1). It appears to have been about the twelfth century that this office was first instituted; but the...

...but judging from the form and appearance of the type, it would seem to have been executed at Paris, about the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century." It is also said that the volume contains two books ilc Imagine Mundi, by Honorius of Autun; to which...

...lancet and trefoiled arches, with the archivolts springing from square pilasters in the nave, and round columns in the chancel. The chapels of the flamboyant...supported by a row of little false arches, part of whHi are pointed and part semicircular, resting on consoles. In front of the church rises a square...