 | CHARLES MAYO, L.L.B - 1804 - 586 pages
...sumptuous palaces and collections of paintings and statuary. When the course of trade was changed by the discovery of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, the Italian merchants i / ยป were deprived of their sources of wealth: and those nobles whose ancestors... | |
 | John Leeds Bozman - America - 1811 - 404 pages
...thought it proper to erect, what is styled by historians, the Dutch East India Company. The great length of the passage to the East Indies, by the Cape of Good Hope, being productive of many inconveniences, the company became anxious, as indeed all the rest of Europe... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 544 pages
...expired Dec. 5, 1798.1 GAMA (VASCO, or VASQUEZ DI), an illustrious Portugueze, is immortalized by his discovery of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. The maritime town of Sines in Portugal was the place of his birtb, . his family was good, but not noble,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 548 pages
...expired Dec. 5, 1798.i GAMA (VASCO, or VASQUEZ DI), an illustrious Portuguese, is immortalized by his discovery of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. The maritime town of Sines in Portugal was the place of his hirth, his family was good, but not noble,... | |
 | John Lawless - Belfast (Northern Ireland) - 1818 - 498 pages
...industry has 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
...sufficient 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... | |
 | 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
...found to be of 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,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...there is no event 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. The enterprising spirit of the Portuguese had prompted them to undertake voyages along the coast of... | |
 | 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,... | |
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France, at that time uninhabited, immediately after the discovery of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. 
