...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...

...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...

...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...

.... 289 PART III. Of the Advantages which £urope has derived from the Discovery of America, and from that of a Passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope 331 CHAPTER VIII. Conclusion of the Mercantile System . . .416 CHAPTER IX. Of the Agricultural Systems,...

...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...

...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...

...surrounded by the dominions of powerful neighbours, soon ceased to be the same, when the discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, and of the New World, gave a new direction to the commerce of Europe, and broke up the monopoly which...

...and surrounded by the dominions of powerful neighbors, soon ceased to be the same, when the discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, and of the New World, gave a new direction to the commerce of Europe, and broke up the monopoly which...

...wants, to increase one another's enjoyments Atlantic. 1 and to encourage one another's industry, their The discovery of America, and that of a passage to...by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and пч.-: important events recorded in the history oí We on this side the water are afraid lest ; general...

...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 from establishing themselves in the...