 The vital importance of the Black Sea must now be manifest to every class of our readers. It is the high road to India, and, if we do not occupy it, Russia will occupy it, to our exclusion. We consider the present designs of Russia to be fraught with...  The Portfolio - Page 415edited by - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Worcester County (Mass.) - 1826 - 404 pages
...supremacy, drawing their analogy from the effect produced on the commerce of the world, by Gama's discovery of the passage to the East Indies, round the Cape of Good Hope. That discovery, in fact, transferred the sceptre of commercial dominion to Portugal, from the hands... | |
 | William Lincoln, Christopher Columbus Baldwin - 1826 - 906 pages
...supremacy, drawing their analogy from the effect produced on the commerce of the world, by Gama's discovery of the passage to the East Indies, round the Cape of Good Hope. That discovery, in fact, transferred the sceptre of commercial dominion to Portugal, from the hands... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...school, a conservatory of antiquities and Nuremberg works of arts, and an academy of fine arts. Before the passage to the East Indies round the cape of Good Hope was discovered, Nuremberg was one of the greatest commercial places in the world, as it was the great... | |
 | Portfolio - 1836 - 640 pages
...independent Sovereignty of the German Princes, was in reality the western bulwark of a far grander degign, of a League, the object of which is to annihilate...to the fortunes of the Republic, VOL. III. NO. XXV. KK and every citizen of the State felt, equally with the Doge himself, the national calamity. The following... | |
 | David Urquhart - Europe - 1836 - 630 pages
...have lately appeared, announcing- that Prussia is actively engaged in negotiations at St. Petersburg!* and at Vienna ; and that we may daily expect to hear...to the fortunes of the Republic, VOL. III. NO. XXV. KK and every citizen of the State felt, equally with the Doge himself, the national calamity. The following... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 620 pages
...school, a conservatory of antiquities and Nuremberg works of arts, and an academy of fine ails. Before the passage to the East Indies round the cape of Good Hope was discovered, Nuremberg was one of the greatest commercial places in the world, as it was the great... | |
 | Commerce - 1841 - 598 pages
...and the less apochryphal victories of Semiramis, Darius, and Alexander, down to the present century. The passage to the East Indies round the Cape of Good Hope, was discovered by the celebrated Portuguese navigator, Vasco da Gama, about the year 1498. The Portuguese... | |
 | Great exhibition, 1851 - Great Exhibition - 1852 - 200 pages
...experience acquired on its waters, prepared for the navigation of the Atlantic ; led to the discovery of the passage to the East Indies round the Cape of Good Hope, by Bartholomew Diaz and Vasco de Gama ; to that of America, by Columbus : and let the class trace the... | |
 | [Anonymus AC10074690] - Lisbon (Portugal) - 1853 - 390 pages
...t,heir entire armv. SKETCH: BEPARTURE OF VASCO DA GAM A. The year 1496 was remarkable for Uie discovery of the passage to the East Indies round the Cape of Good Hope. For some lime previous the enterprising spirit of the Portuguese had prompted them to undertake voyages... | |
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