 | Phrenology - 1827 - 674 pages
...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... | |
 | Louis Simond - Italy - 1828 - 654 pages
...have been older by sixty-odd years. At the period of their greatest prosperity, that of the discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, they had 330 ships of war, besides merchantmen, 36,000 seamen, and 16,000 artificers employed in the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 878 pages
...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, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1829 - 558 pages
...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
...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... | |
 | Ignotus Coaxus (pseud.) - Great Britain - 1835 - 224 pages
...results from war. The sun of commerce set upon Venice when it rose on Lisbon. When Gama discovered the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, the stream of commerce rushed into the new channel, and almost left the ships of the former emporium upon... | |
 | William Robertson - Europe - 1836 - 662 pages
...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... | |
 | William Jardine - Birds - 1836 - 384 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
