...dreadedr 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 eftabHfhed their dominion there, that...

...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,...

...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....

...dreaded, inftead of impoverifhing, enriches the kingdom. VIII. IT is to the difcbvery 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,...

...dreaded, inftead of impoverifhing, enriches the kingdom. VIM. 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 eftablimed their dominion there, that...

...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...

...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,...

...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....

...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,...