| Robert Kerr - 1824 - 674 strani
...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 strani
...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... | |
| Robert Kerr - 1824 - 686 strani
...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 Robertson - 1824 - 398 strani
...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... | |
| William Robertson - 1825 - 490 strani
...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... | |
| 1827 - 674 strani
...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 - 1828 - 654 strani
...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... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1829 - 558 strani
...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, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1829 - 552 strani
...that great moral revolution which had now begun to work its way in every part of Europe. The discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, and of the existence of the continent of America, though neither of them flowing from the revival of... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 878 strani
...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... | |
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