 | James Thomson - 1908 - 556 ページ
...Deluge. — T. IV. 293 Venice was the most flourishing city in Europe, with regard to trade, before the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope and America was discovered. — T. IV. 294 Those who fled to some marshes in the Adriatic gulf, from the... | |
 | Edward Farley Oaten - 1909 - 306 ページ
...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 - 328 ページ
...chapter Adam Smith discusses the advantages which Europe has derived from the discovery of America and of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. These advantages may be divided into two groups : general and national. The general advantages are... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1909 - 324 ページ
...Adam Smith discusses the advantages which Europe has derived from the discover)' of America and of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. These advantages may be divided into two groups : general and national. The general advantages are... | |
 | 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 ページ
...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 - 378 ページ
...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... | |
 | Gary M. Walton, James F. Shepherd - 1979 - 244 ページ
...PRESS: SYNDICS LIBRARY ft The economic rise of early America 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... | |
 | M. N. Pearson - 2006 - 208 ページ
...Portuguese discoveries is Adam Smith's famous statement 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' (DK Fieldhouse,... | |
 | Edward Farley Oaten - 1991 - 294 ページ
...chant the praise Of Lusian chiefs. —Camoens' "Lusiad" I, 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.... | |
 | J. H. Elliott - 1992 - 140 ページ
...non-committal passage into an ex cathedra historical pronouncement: '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'.3 But in what,... | |
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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. 
