| 1819 - 550 หน้า
...which they became converted, and the causes that have produced their renegation. It is singular that the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, instead of having promoted the great cause of Christian conversion, should have been the reason,... | |
| William Russell - 1802 - 512 หน้า
...kingdom in Europe, it is become one of the less considerable. Portugal has experienced a like fate, since the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and the settlement of Brazil : and from the same cause, a too great and sudden influx of wealth.... | |
| William Playfair - 1805 - 684 หน้า
...that time, the Italian cities, and those on the Baltic Sea, engrossed the whole commerce of Europe. The discovery of the passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, and of America, with the facility which the discovery of the magnetic needle had given to the... | |
| 1806 - 502 หน้า
...instead of commercial, and preferring political importance to wealth obtained by their original modes." The discovery of the passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, with that of America, and the consequent attention to commerce th'ereby excited in other nations,... | |
| 1811 - 434 หน้า
...that superiority which the northern nations had so long enjoyed. In addition to this circumstance, the discovery of the passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, and of America, with the facility which the discovery of the magnetic needle had given to the... | |
| John Bigland - 1811 - 588 หน้า
...greatest among the great, the mother of the world, and the delight of the imagination.' Previous to the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, the Oriental commerce of Cairo was very extensive ; but since that time it has greatly declined,... | |
| William Robertson - 1812 - 422 หน้า
...India, which has been so much tlreaded, instead of impoverishing enriches the kingdom. VIII. It is to the discovery of the passage to India by the cape of Good Hope, and to the vigour and success with which the Portuguese prosecuted their conquests and established... | |
| John Hoyland - 1816 - 278 หน้า
...have been brought into view in the course of this work. In addition it may be observed, that before the discovery of the passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, all the productions of the east, that were distributed in Europe, came to Egyptian ports. Hence... | |
| William Robertson - 1817 - 450 หน้า
...India, which has been so much dreaded, instead of impoverishing enriches the kingdom. VIII. IT is to the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and to the vigour and success with which the Portuguese prosecuted their conquests and established... | |
| William Robertson - 1817 - 430 หน้า
...India, which has been so much dreaded, instead of impoverishing enriches the kingdom. VIII. IT is to the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and to the vigour and success with which the Portuguese prosecuted their conquests and established... | |
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