 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 322 pages
...Bnrnet's system of the deluge. J 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, were discovered. |l Those who fled to some marshes in the Adriatic gulph, from the desolation... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 236 pages
...whole indissoluble chains : * Venice was the most flourishing city in Europe, with regird to trade, before the passage to the East Indies, by the Cape of Good Hope, and America were discovered f Those who fled to some marshes in the Adria*ic gulph, from the desolation... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 374 pages
...to his feelings and his better judgment. AD In the second year of his reign, Di z'n- Gama discovered the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. The enterprising spirit of the Portuguese, first roused into action by prince Henry, as already noticed,... | |
 | CHARLES MAYO, L.L.B - 1804 - 586 pages
...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 / » were deprived of their sources of wealth: and those nobles whose ancestors... | |
 | James Thomson, Thomas Park - 1808 - 444 pages
...Burners system of the deluge. '' 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. M Those who fled to some marshes in the Adriatic gnlph, from the desolation... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 626 pages
...when they landed on the Isle of France, at that time uninhabited, immediately after the discovery of the 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... | |
 | John Leeds Bozman - 1811 - 404 pages
...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 - 1814 - 544 pages
...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 - 1814 - 548 pages
...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,... | |
 | British traveller - 1816 - 278 pages
...the desire of nations and individuals to improve their condition, till the discovery of America, and the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, produced an entirely new system—the object of which is, equally to benefit the infant colony, and... | |
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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. 
