Portugal Illustrated
In a Series of Letters (Classic Reprint)
Description:... Excerpt from Portugal Illustrated: In a Series of Letters Having personally experienced these difficulties, in addition to certain obstacles thrown occasionally in his way by prejudice and jealousy, the author re solved to place in the hands of his countrymen a work on Portugal, which, at least, should afford a faithful and comprehensive, though still a synoptical, view of all the great subjects of interest connected with the history of that country; its ancient and modern condition, from the rule of its Roman masters to the possession of its sceptre by the house of Braganza; its religious, civil, literary, military, naval, commercial, colonial, academic, and scientific establishments. The familiar and hurried style of epistolary writing, in.
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