 | SIR GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS, BART. - 1901 - 448 páginas
...contributed most to the general defense and support of the whole. The discovery of America and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind. Their consequences... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1904 - 492 páginas
...fatal consequences to their republic, which the sagacity of the Venetian senate foresaw on the first discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, actually took place. Their endeavors to prevent the Portuguese from establishing themselves in the... | |
 | Albert Lee - 1906 - 400 páginas
...the prosperity of Venice, sent ships in all directions ; while enterprise in other respects, such as the discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, resulted in severe inroads on the monopoly of trade which was possessed by the famous city on the sea.... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 506 páginas
...contributed most to the general defence and support of the whole. The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind. Their consequences... | |
 | Edward Farley Oaten - 1909 - 306 páginas
...chant the praise Of Lusian chiefs. — Camofiu' "Lusiad," 1, Hi.9 The discovery of America and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind. — Adam Smith.... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1909 - 324 páginas
...great events, and in the shadows of even greater coming events. " The discovery of America and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind. Their consequences... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1909 - 328 páginas
...great events, and in the shadows of even greater coming events. " The discovery of America and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind. Their consequences... | |
 | Frederick Tice - 1922 - 874 páginas
...were performed, and scurvy promptly commenced to appear among the seamen. Vasco da Gama first found a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope in 1497, and 100 out of his 160 men died of scurvy. The first account of scurvy among seamen is to... | |
 | George Richard Potter, Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, Richard Bruce Wernham, J. P. Cooper, Francis Ludwig Carsten, John Selwyn Bromley, Peter Burke, J. O. Lindsay, Albert Goodwin, Charles William Crawley, John Patrick Tuer Bury, Francis Harry Hinsley, Henry Clifford Darby, David Thomson, Harold Fullard - 1957 - 388 páginas
...and exploiting lands and seas outside. Adam Smith considered that 'the discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind'. By his day these... | |
 | T. W. Hutchison - 1978 - 376 páginas
...523). important events in the history of mankind are, for Smith, 'the discovery of America and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope'; that is, two vast potential extensions of the market (and the second of Smith's greatest historic events... | |
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The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind. 
