 | William Robertson - 1825 - 490 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1827 - 674 Seiten
...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, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1829 - 558 Seiten
...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 on,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1829 - 552 Seiten
...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 on,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 878 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1829 - 392 Seiten
...almost every thing he undertook, he was styled the Fortunate. In his reign, De Gama discovered the passage to the East Indies, by the Cape of Good Hope ; and soon afterwards Brazil was added to his dominions. So highly was the character of this prince extolled,... | |
 | 1832 - 424 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1836 - 538 Seiten
...to 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... | |
 | William Jardine - 1836 - 384 Seiten
...seen 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... | |
 | William Robertson - 1836 - 662 Seiten
...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 trom establishing themselves in the... | |
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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. 
