...starry worlds which were described by the Columbus of the heavens. Printing, and the use of fire arms, the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, which accompanied that of America, and the subsequent circumnavigation of the globe, the invention...

...of cotton goods in Europe, it is said, was first attempted by the commercial states of Italy, before the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope. These enterprising communities had, till then, been the medium through which the cotton fabrics...

...indebted, a second time, for her deliverance from Turkish bondage. — " It is," says Dr. R., " 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 their...

...small; but several of them are open only during the carnival. To say nothing of political causes, since the discovery of the passage to India by the cape of Good Hope, the trade from Venice to the east has naturally diminished : at present the mercantile transactions...

...Dandolo, were not surpassed in splendour or heroism by the proudest knights of England or France. But the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and the successive improvements in navigation, deprived her of the superiority she enjoyed over other maritime...

...tinctoria, the woad plant, or pastel. With this they dyed their garments and painted their skins. After the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, the eastern indigo, derived from various species of Indigofera, gradually displaced wood, as...

...to Scanderoon. On this scite the Macedonian conqueror founded the city of Alexandria, which before the discovery of the passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, was the emporium of all the trade of the world : though from its present appearance, very few...

...that the discovery of America could not have been usefully delayed. It is, say these writers 37 , 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 their...

...passes in a moment from business and bustle, apparently to earnest prayer and abstraction. " Before the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, Cairo was a place of very great trade; and although it has lost much of its splendour and opulence...

...brought up the Red Sea, to Egypt, and so passed through Alexandria to the Mediterranean. But after the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, around the south of Africa, its trade declined, so that at present it is little more than a village,...