 From that time, like everything else which falls into the hands of the Mussulman, it has been going to ruin, and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope gave the death-blow to its commercial greatness.  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Pàgina 146per Edgar Allan Poe - 1896Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1836 - 436 pàgines
...4000 baths, and 400 places of amusement. The commerce between this city and Rome was considerable. The discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope destroyed the maritime superiority of Alexandria, and it can only be restored by a return of the... | |
 | John L. Stephens - 1837 - 294 pàgines
...spacious circus without the Canopie Gate for chariot-races and on the east a splendid gymnasium, more than six hundred feet in length, with theatres, baths,...it stands a phenomenon in the history of a Turkish dominion. It appears once more to be raising its head from the dust. It remains to be seen whether... | |
 | John L. Stephens - 1837 - 686 pàgines
...edifices, twelve thousand shops, and forty thousand tributary Jews." From that time, like every thing else which falls into the hands of the Mussulman,...it stands a phenomenon in the history of a Turkish dominion. It appears once more to be raising its head from the dust. It remains to be seen whether... | |
 | Henry Hopkins (A.M.) - 1837 - 224 pàgines
...image, of a body which has once had life. either animal or vegetable, combined with some mineral. Until the discovery of the passage to India by the cape of Good Hope, Venice was immensely opulent by engrossing most of the trade to the east. Every change of the... | |
 | John L. Stephens - 1838 - 282 pàgines
...spacious circus without the Canopie Gate for chariot-races and on the east a splendid gymnasium, more than six hundred feet in length, with theatres, baths,...it stands a phenomenon in the history of a Turkish dominion. It appears once more to be raising its head from the dust. It remains to be seen whether... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 540 pàgines
...other causes at work, the decline of the great trading republics of Venice and Genoa may be traced to the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope. Soon after Gama's return Emanuel sent out a second fleet to India, under the remraand of Pedro... | |
 | 1838 - 542 pàgines
...other causes at work, the decline of the great trading republics of Venice and Genoa may be traced to the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope. Soon after Gama's return Emanuel sent out a second fleet to India, under the command of Pedro... | |
 | John Lemprière - 1838 - 818 pàgines
...being less than 13,000. Its decline is chiefly owing to the diversion of its commerce, consequent upon the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope. D'Anville. — Cha-usmrd. — Heeren. — Russell s Egypt, — Casar, В. С. 112, &с. II. A... | |
 | 1838 - 430 pàgines
...century, the Venetians were in the habit of receiving Indigo from the East by the way of Alexandria. After the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, the Dutch are supposed to have been the first, about the middle of the 16th century, to import... | |
 | 1838 - 1056 pàgines
...other causes at work, the decline of the great trading republics of Venice and Genoa may he traced to the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope. Soon after Gama's return Eraanuel sent out a second fleet to India, under the command of Pedro... | |
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