English Travellers of the Renaissance eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 194 pages of information about English Travellers of the Renaissance.

English Travellers of the Renaissance eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 194 pages of information about English Travellers of the Renaissance.

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INDEX

    Academies, 121-132;
      in France, 121-123;
      proposals for academies in England, 123-126;
      objections to such academies, 128-132

    Acworth, George, 62

    Addison, Joseph, 181

    Advice to Travellers, 4-5, 205;
      Elizabethan, 21;
      characteristics of Renaissance books of, 28-32;
      admonitory side of, 55, 88-98;
      for the country gentleman, 148;
      guide-books of the 18th century, 196, 200

    Agricola, Rudolf, 7

    Alps, the, 192, 200

    Ambassadors,
      training for, 12-16, 43-47, 69;
      troubles of, 83-85, 133

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