 | Thomas Smith - 1803 - 322 sidor
...a mortal blow, from which they have never recovered. These were th« discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. The former put Spain in possession of immense treasures; which, being gradually diffused through all... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 458 sidor
...the Portuguese, excited by what had been done by Columbus, undertook a voyage, with a view of finding a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. The command of this expedition was given to Vasco de Gama, who set sail from Lisbon oa the . ~ gth... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 432 sidor
...the Portuguese, excited by what had been done by Columbus, undertook a voyage, with a view of finding a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. The command of this expedition was given to Vasco de Gama, who set sail from Lisbon on the . -p Qth... | |
 | William Playfair - 1805 - 684 sidor
...merchants. The mariner's compass, enabling seamen to quit sight of land without danger, made way "for the discovery of a passage to the East Indies, by the Cape of Good Hope, and the discovery of America.. Those two. discoveries altered entirely the nature of commerce, and... | |
 | Arthur Aikin - 1805 - 968 sidor
...it ; their revenues were exhausted, their spirits were depressed, and their commerce decline^ after the discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good flopc. The Portuguese succeeded then in the monopoly of this important traffic, and Venice, within... | |
 | Thomas Smith - 1806 - 150 sidor
...known in Europe. 1496 The first game-act passed. 1497 The Portuguese, under Vasco de Gama, discover a passage to the East Indies, by the Cape of Good Hope. South America discovered by Americus Vesputius, from whom it received its name. 1 49 8 Lewis XII. king... | |
 | Alexander Annesley - 1808 - 308 sidor
...trade and manufactures began to increase, though by slow degrees, till by the discovery of America, and of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, the ancient channels of commerce, and the projects and views of commercial men became completely changed.... | |
 | Mr. Cooper (W. D.) - 1808 - 316 sidor
...who inherited the enterprising genius of his predecessors, persisted in their grand scheme of opening a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, and soon after his accession to the throne he equipped a squadron for that important voyage. He gave... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - 410 sidor
...effect on, of the invention of printing, ibid. — its spirits of inquiry ami enterprise urged on by the discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, and of the existence of the continent of America, 478 — effect of the rise and progress of the reformation... | |
 | William Robertson - 1811 - 552 sidor
...who inherited the enterprising genius of his predecessors, persisted in their grand scheme of opening a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, and toon after his accession to the throne, equipped a squadron for that important voyage. He gave... | |
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The discovery of America and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind. 
