Universal History, Ancient and Modern: From the Earliest Records of Time, to the General Peace of 1801, Band 15Samuel Stansbury and Company, 1803 |
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... Portuguese is spoken along the coast of Africa and Asia as far as China , but with an intermixture of many different languages . Though there are two universities in Portugal , those of Coimbra and Evora , learning is at a very low ebb ...
... Portuguese is spoken along the coast of Africa and Asia as far as China , but with an intermixture of many different languages . Though there are two universities in Portugal , those of Coimbra and Evora , learning is at a very low ebb ...
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... Portuguese foreign settlements are not only of immense value but vastly improveable . Brazil , the isles of Cape Verd , Madeira , and the Azores , are the principal of these . Goa is their chief remaining establishment in the East ...
... Portuguese foreign settlements are not only of immense value but vastly improveable . Brazil , the isles of Cape Verd , Madeira , and the Azores , are the principal of these . Goa is their chief remaining establishment in the East ...
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... Portuguese military and naval forces are far from being adequate to the defence of the country . Indeed , for a great length of time , they have depended chiefly for protection on Eng- land , which , from different commercial and ...
... Portuguese military and naval forces are far from being adequate to the defence of the country . Indeed , for a great length of time , they have depended chiefly for protection on Eng- land , which , from different commercial and ...
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... Portuguese historians agree , that Don Alonzo , king of Castile and Leon , and son to Don Ferdinand the Great , bestowed his daughter Donna Theresa in marriage upon an illustrious stranger , named Don Henry , and gave him as her nuptial ...
... Portuguese historians agree , that Don Alonzo , king of Castile and Leon , and son to Don Ferdinand the Great , bestowed his daughter Donna Theresa in marriage upon an illustrious stranger , named Don Henry , and gave him as her nuptial ...
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... Portuguese soon turned their views to an enlargement of their dominions ; and , as all Christian princes considered victories and con- quests over the Moors as doubly meritorious , count Henry is said to have performed many valiant ...
... Portuguese soon turned their views to an enlargement of their dominions ; and , as all Christian princes considered victories and con- quests over the Moors as doubly meritorious , count Henry is said to have performed many valiant ...
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