 | 1923 - 662 strani
...communicated to society, by which these changes were rendered beneficial to man, and the blessings which they conferred were perpetuated to the present generation....fountains of wealth to commerce and manufactures. Labor became, of course, vastly more valuable, and artisans became possessed of the means of independence.... | |
 | William Stevenson, Robert Kerr - 1824 - 706 strani
...the English on the banks of Newfoundland. The French had already engaged in this fishery. coveries of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and of America, induced, as we have seen, the other maritime nations to turn their attention to navigation... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 674 strani
...Straits, in the year 1643. - The success of the Portuguese and Spaniards in their disAA 3 coveries of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and of America, induced, as we have seen, the other maritime nations to turn their attention to navigation... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 686 strani
...Brewer's Straits, in the year 1643. The success of the Portuguese and Spaniards in their disAA 3 coveries of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and of America, induced, as we have seen, the other maritime nations to turn their attention to navigation... | |
 | 1825 - 500 strani
...to those which gave rise to that of Amsterdam, dealt largely in exchange; and before the discovery of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and the consequent downfall of the commerce of Venice and Genoa, notes having the signature of their banks,... | |
 | 1831 - 416 strani
...communicated to society, by which these changes were rendered beneficial to man, and the blessings which they conferred were perpetuated to the present generation....fountains of wealth to commerce and manufactures. Labor became, of course, vastly more valuable, and artisans became possessed of the means of independence.... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1833 - 388 strani
...which rendered these changes beneficial to man, and perpetuated the blessings which they conferred to the present generation. To illustrate this very...of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and also of the mariner's compass, opened exhaustless fountains of wealth to commerce and manufactures.... | |
 | 1847 - 722 strani
...once the rulers of the destinies of mankind ? Where aro Spain and Portugal, the discoverers of the passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, and of the Western World ? The answer is plain — their prosperity and glory have departed because they had no... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1847 - 1376 strani
...once the rulers of the destinies of mankind ? Where arp S|i:iin and Portugal, the discoverers of the passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, and of the Western World ? The answer is plain — their prosperity and1 glory have departed because they had... | |
 | 1847 - 722 strani
...once the rulers of the destinies of mankind ? Where are Spain and Portugal, the discoverers of the passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, and of the Western World ? The answer is plain — their prosperity and glory have departed because they had no... | |
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... conferred were perpetuated to the present generation. To illustrate this very briefly — You may be aware that at about the period of the Reformation, great changes were wrought in the physical condition of man. The discovery of America, and of a... 
