 | Babur (Emperor of Hindustan) - Asia, Central - 1826 - 538 pages
...in Germany, the Emperors Maximilian and Charles V. ; in Spain, Ferdinand and Isabella, and' Charles. The discovery of America, and of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, the increase of the power of France by the union of the great fiefs to the crown, and of Spain... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1839 - 642 pages
...which was required to change the spirit of the age." VOL. VI. — NO. XI. O seminaries of this period. The discovery of America, and of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, opened a new and ample field to the energies of religious zeal and apostolic spirit. Nor was... | |
 | William Sheldon - Bible - 1842 - 462 pages
...out of the sixth vial, at verse 12 of chapter 16.* This vial is supposed to represent the discoveries of America, and of the passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope. Three unclean spirits like frogs — in the water and out of the water — on the water and on... | |
 | Archibald Sinclair (of Mason's hall sch, Greenock.) - 1843 - 370 pages
...ancient city of Bavaria, stands upon one of the upper streams of the Main, and, before the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, it was a very important inland commercial city. Its trade, in all kinds of hardware and toys, is still... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - Great Britain - 1845 - 88 pages
...English ancestors. The revival of letters, the art of printing, the extension of commerce resulting from the discovery of America and of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and finally the emancipation of the human mind by the Reformation, had been, most of them, in... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 308 pages
...the art of printing; and great advances, both in the art and the science of navigation, leading to the discovery of America, and of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope — events which tended to a great increase and diffusion of both knowledge and wealth among the... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Boys - 1854 - 248 pages
...principal inventions and discoveries — such as those of gunpowder, printing, and the mariner's compass; the discovery of America, and of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, &c., may be chronologically stored in the memory, without injury to the understanding. Without... | |
 | W. W. Howard - French language - 1854 - 322 pages
...discoveries ; the invention of printing, of gunpowder, d6couverte/. f. imprimerie /. poudre a canon/, the discovery of America, and of the passage to India by the les Indespl. Cape of Good Hope, &c. eap m. (3) The wise and pious Bossuet, bishop of Meaux, wrote hw... | |
 | William Anderson Scott - Civilization - 1856 - 180 pages
...to ourselves. V. PROVIDENCE DESIGNS THE PROGRESS OF THE NATIONS.* It is a singular Providence, that the discovery of America and of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, should have occurred so nearly at the same * See Appendix K. time. In all ages the commodities... | |
 | J J. Farnham - Great Britain - 1856 - 82 pages
...fishery were commenced, as well as the disgraceful slave trade, since productive of so many horrors. The discovery of America, and of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, gave a great impetus to commerce, which was greatly encouraged by the Tudors ; although their... | |
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... the discovery of America, and of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, very much diminished the trade of A. 
