I don't like to boast, but I dare affirm that no man knows more than I about sixteenth century mezza-majolica.

Luca's frescoes at Orvieto, when compared with Michelangelo's in the Sistine, mark the transition from the art of the fourteenth, through the art of the fifteenth, to that of the sixteenth century, with broad and trenchant force.

Neither students nor architects reflected that they could not understand Vitruvius; that, if they could understand him, it was by no means certain he was right; and that, if he was right for his own age, he would not be right for the sixteenth century after Christ.

Then, again, in the first half of the sixteenth century it anticipated the rhetoric of the barocco periodthe eloquence of seventeenth-century divines, Dutch poets, Jesuit pulpiteers.

Mr. Gladstone wishes for the unity of the fifteenth century with the active and searching spirit of the sixteenth.

This could not be; for the sacrifice was the effect, according to the editor's own showing, of the remonstrances of the second Mrs. Burney; and Frances was in her sixteenth year when her father's second marriage took place.

We have already alluded to the cruelties exercised in Great Britain during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and add an account of one of the cruel ceremonies used to detect witches:"Having taken the suspected witch," says Gaule, "she is placed in the middle of a room upon a stool or table, cross-legged, or in some other uneasy posture, to which if she submits not, she is then bound with cords.

When rules are thus drawn, rather from precedents than reason, there is danger not only from the faults of an author, but from the errours of those who criticise his works; since they may often mislead their pupils by false representations, as the Ciceronians of the sixteenth century were betrayed into barbarisms by corrupt copies of their darling writer.

I had, by this rule of conduct, so diffused my interest, that I had a fourth part of fifteen tickets, an eighth of forty, and a sixteenth of ninety.

At last a prize of five thousand pounds was proclaimed; I caught fire at the cry, and inquiring the number, found it to be one of my own tickets, which I had divided among those on whose luck I depended, and of which I had retained only a sixteenth part.

The gale amended after several days, and on the sixteenth day from their departure they reached Mangareva.

" Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Sarah Wells 1012 W. Sixteenth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 84 Occupation: Field hand

Nostradamus, in the sixteenth century, called the French crapauds in the well-known line: Les anciens crapauds prendront Sara. ("Sara" is Aras backwards, a city taken from the Spaniards under Louis XIV.)

With Short Introductions to the Different Reigns, and Notices of the Airs from Writers of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.

As this had lasted from her layette up to her sixteenth year, it may be imagined what took place when she determined to make her début.

" Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Evelina Morgan 1317 W. Sixteenth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age:

His account of that sixteenth century in which the mediaeval civilisation ended, is not more and not less picturesque than Froude's: the difference is in the dull detail of truth.

In this undertaking he himself bore a large share, translating the whole of Persius, with the first, third, sixth, tenth, and sixteenth satires of Juvenal.

The Third Miscellany contained, of Dryden's poetry, a few songs, the first book, with part of the ninth and sixteenth books of the Metamorphoses, and the parting of Hector and Andromache, from the Iliad.

It is believed to have been built by Abbot Dovell in the sixteenth century.

The present aisles were added in the sixteenth century, with the intention of giving a cathedral aspect to the minster church.

A daring spirit in the nineteenth century would have been but a timid nursery soul indeed in the sixteenth.

This Clay-and-Paint Age Fifteenth Chapter: The Story of the Mother Sixteenth Chapter: "Through Desire for Her." Seventeenth Chapter: The Plan of the Builder Eighteenth Chapter: That Park Predicament Nineteenth Chapter:

Care of baby during his sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth months.

It is possible that the personage of Harlequin has descended from the Greek plays, in which there appeared an actor filling a similar rôle and dressed in the skin of a goat or a tiger; but so early an origin, even if it could be proved, would not serve to explain the costume in which he now appears, and which is itself a modification of that worn by Harlequin in the sixteenth century.