 | John Lawless - Belfast (Northern Ireland) - 1818 - 498 pages
...invariably received since its progress in Europe. Trade assumed a new face in Europe, from the discovery of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. This happened in the reign of Henry VII. and in his reign, through the influence of his viceroy, Sir... | |
 | Edward Wells - Bible - 1819 - 398 pages
...repute for merchandize or trade. The great cause of the abatement of its trade has been the discovery of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, or on the south of Afric. For before this discovery, the whole spice trade was carried into this part... | |
 | William Playfair - France - 1819 - 456 pages
...to war, and was a great encourager of commerce and manufactures. The recent maritime discoveries ; the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope; and the colonization of America, were circumstances peculiarly favourable to Britain, from her insular... | |
 | Emily Taylor - Didactic fiction - 1820 - 286 pages
...right. It is remarkable that the discovery of the western world should have happened so near to that of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. The demand for Indian goods was so prodigiously increased by the latter discovery, that all the wealth... | |
 | Thomas Smith (accountant.) - Economics - 1821 - 254 pages
...essential benefit, and a very great value continued, therefore, to be set upon them. The discovery of the passage to the East Indies, by the Cape of Good Hope, gave a new turn to the commercial enterprises of Europe^ and the subsequent discovery of South America,... | |
 | English essays - 1822 - 492 pages
...individually declined, from commerce having taken a different direction since the discovery of America, and the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope ; but the countries in which they are situated are rich and well cultivated, and the people happy.... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 270 pages
...system of the deluge. 22 Venice was the most flourishing city in Europe, with regard.to trade, before the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope and America was discovered. 23 Those who fled to some marshes in the Adriatic gnlf, from the desolation... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 862 pages
...which it never has recovered, nor can recover itself. These were the discovery of America, and that of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. The former put Spam in possession of immense treasures ; which being gradually diffused all over Europe,... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1826 - 794 pages
...Cape Aguillas U the extreme southern point of Africa, being in 34 deg. 58 min. 30 seconds of S. lat. The passage to the East Indies by the cape of Good Hope, was first made in 1497, by Vasco de Gama, a Portuguese. The discovery was one of those events which... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...of any consequence recorded in the history of Portugal. This year was remarkable for the discovery of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, by Vasco de Gama ; and at this period Portugal possessed an uncommon spirit of commercial enterprise... | |
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Europe, with regard to trade, before the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope and America was discovered. 
