 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.  The Naturalist's Library - Page 21by William Jardine - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Robert Kerr - Explorers - 1824 - 674 pages
...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 pages
...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 Stevenson, Robert Kerr - Commerce - 1824 - 706 pages
...of 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 ofGood Hope, the powerful league of Cambray, and other circumstances, weakened and gradually destroyed... | |
 | William Robertson - America - 1825 - 432 pages
...fatal consequences to their republic, which the sagacity of the Venetian senate foresaw, on the first discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the cape of Good Hope, actually took place. Their endeavours to prevent the Portuguese from establishing themselves in the... | |
 | Phrenology - 1827 - 674 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 878 pages
...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1829 - 552 pages
...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1829 - 558 pages
...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... | |
 | English periodicals - 1832 - 424 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Roper - 1832 - 178 pages
...landed on the flowers of the large species of fuchsia, then in bloom in the midst of a shower of snow. Isle of France, at that time uninhabited, immediately after the discovery of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. It was of a large size and singular form:... | |
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