 | Egypt. Appendix - 1799 - 200 pages
...mouldings of a peculiar form. Modern Alexandria is a diminutive city in comparison with the ancient. The discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope destroyed a large share of its commercial importance, but of late years it has somewhat revived.... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1819 - 550 pages
...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,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1801 - 592 pages
...proportionably large, and well provided with marine stores of every description. ' Bombay was, very soon after the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, anno 1498, settled by the Portugueze. From the excellence of its harbour, formed by a long chain... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1802 - 512 pages
...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 Hunter - Europe - 1803 - 638 pages
...speculation and inquiry, and unexplored sources of prosperity and wealth, were continually expanding. * The discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, transferred the lucrative commerce of that productive country from the Arabs to the Europeani.... | |
 | William Playfair - Commercial products - 1805 - 684 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
 | English literature - 1807 - 570 pages
...high degree of perfection. Their government was beneficent, the people numerous, opulent and happy. But the discovery of the passage to india by the Cape of Good Hope, diverted the principal commerce of Venice into another channel, and l'or a short period the Portuguese... | |
 | John Malcolm - India - 1811 - 570 pages
...the more detailed history of their progress commences. Though the merchants of Great Britain, after the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope (AD 1497), made early efforts to share with the Portuguese in the rich trade, which was carried... | |
 | 1811 - 538 pages
...the more detailed history of their progress commences. Though the merchants of Great Britain, after the discovery of the passage to INDIA by the Cape of Good Hope (AD 1407). made early efforts to share with the Portuguese ill the rich trade, which wa» carried... | |
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From that time, like everything else which falls into the hands of the Mussulman, it has been going to ruin, and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope gave the deathblow to its commercial greatness. 
