 | Eliza Roberts - 1813 - 408 pagina’s
...Indies, because, about the time when the Spaniards were sailing westward, the Portuguese found out a passage to the East Indies, by the Cape of Good Hope. Europe is the least of the four parts of the earth ; but is at this time the most respectable, for... | |
 | William Robertson - 1813 - 490 pagina’s
...who inherited the enterprising genius of bis 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, equipped a squadron for that im» portant voyage. He gave... | |
 | Charles Lloyd - 1815 - 258 pagina’s
...his youth. He had also a great deal of sagacity. Just about his ti«ve, the Portuguese were in search of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. It occurred to him that the same object might be attained by proceeding west, across the Atlantic Ocean.... | |
 | Samuel Phelps - 1818 - 634 pagina’s
...each other, and then this bond would not be likely to be dissolved. The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies, by the Cape of Good Hope, are certainly the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind. Their... | |
 | William Robertson, Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 610 pagina’s
...the revenues as well as vigour of the state were exhausted by their extraordinary and long continued efforts in their own defence ; and that commerce by...the Portuguese from establishing themselves in the East-Indies, not only by exciting the Soldans of Egypt, and the Ottoman Monarchs, to turn their arms... | |
 | William Robertson, Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 478 pagina’s
...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 equipped a squadron for that important voyage. He gave the... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 674 pagina’s
...wealth ; the principal were silk, cloth of gold and silver, vessels of gold and silver, and glass. The discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, the powerful league of Cambray, and other circumstances, weakened and gradually destroyed their commerce... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 686 pagina’s
...wealth; the principal were silk, cloth of gold and silver, vessels of gold and silver, and glass. The discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, the powerful league of Cambray, and other circumstances, weakened and gradually destroyed their commerce... | |
 | William Stevenson - 1824 - 674 pagina’s
...principal were silk, cloth of Sold and silver, vessels of gold and silver, and glass. The iscovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, the powerful league of Cambray, and other circumstances, weakened and gradually destroyed their commerce... | |
 | William Robertson - 1824 - 398 pagina’s
...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, 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. 
