...this celebrated hiftorian is not a partizan of the Turks : ' It is to the difcovery of the paflage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and to the vigour and fuccefs with which the Portuguefe profecuted their conqueils and eftabliihed their dominion there,...

...dreaded^, inftead of impoverifhing, enriches the kingdom,VIII. IT is to the difcovery of the paflage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and to the vigour and fuccefs with which the Portuguefe profecuted their conquefts and eftablifhed their dominion there,...

...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....

...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,...

...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. 27. Benzoni,...

...dreaded, inftead of impoverifhing enriches the kingdom. VIII. IT is to the difcovery of the paffage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and to the vigour and fuccefs with which the Portuguefe profecuted their conquefts and eftablifhed their dominion there,...

...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 navigation...

...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,...

...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 navigation...

...the 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,...