 | William Robertson - 1825 - 490 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... | |
 | 1827 - 674 pagina’s
...doctrine. i.The portraits of Christopher Columbus, and of Vasco de Gama, who immortalized himself by the discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, offer the same conformation. Regnard had from infancy an ardent desire to travel ; and the following... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1829 - 558 pagina’s
...effect on, of the invention of printing, ibid.— its spirit of inquiry and 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 878 pagina’s
...scarcely possible to resist them. What contributed also greatly to the decline of the republic was the discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, in 1497. To this time the greatest part of the East India goods imported into Europe passed through... | |
 | 1832 - 424 pagina’s
...after 6. Sept. I, 1503.— Return of Vasco de Gama to Lisbon. VASCO de Gama immortabzed himself, by a discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. Don kananuel, King of Portugal, sent him to India in the year 1493, upon a voyage of discovery. He... | |
 | William Robertson - 1836 - 662 pagina’s
...in the war excited by the le.igur of Cambray, but the revenues as well as vigour of the state were exhausted by their extraordi VOL II.— 63 nary and...place. Their endeavours to prevent the Portuguese trom establishing themselves in the East Indies, not only by exciting the Soldans of Egypt, and the... | |
 | William Jardine - 1836 - 384 pagina’s
...by the Dutch when they landed on the Isle of France, at that time uninhabited, immediately after the discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. It was of a large size and singular form ; its wings short, like those of an Ostrich, and wholly incapable... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1836 - 538 pagina’s
...have been beneficial to all, ruinous and destructive to several of those unfortunate countries. The discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, which happened much about the same time, opened, perhaps, a still more extensive range to foreign commerce... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1837 - 582 pagina’s
...lands, and surrounded by the dominions of powerful neighbours, soon ceased to be the same, when the discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, and of the New World, gave a new direction to the commerce of Europe, and broke up the monopoly which... | |
 | 1837 - 556 pagina’s
...lands, and surrounded by the dominions of powerful neighbors, soon ceased to be the same, when the discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, and of the New World, gave a new direction to the commerce of Europe, and broke up the monopoly which... | |
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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. 
