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At the time of the American Revolution most of the New World still belonged to Spain and Portugal, whose captains and conquerors had been the first to come to its shores. Spain had the lion's share, but Portugal held Brazil, in itself a vast land of unsuspected resources.
It was impossible not to acknowledge the forbearance of the House with regard to the discussion of foreign affairs a forbearance dictated by a sense of the delicacy of interfering with pending negotiations, and pre-judging measures; yet he had no hesitation in saying, that he was perfectly prepared to acquiesce in the motion of the right hon. gentleman, and probably the right hon. gentleman, instead of confining it to a call for certain papers, would allow his motion to stand as it appeared in the notice paper 'for copies or extracts of communications concerning the relations between this country and Her Most Faithful Majesty the Queen of Portugal'; and he assured him that every paper connected with the Queen of Portugal, which it was consistent with the duty of Ministers to produce, should be most readily given.
The Marquis de Lauzun, having learnt the steps taken by the Queen of Portugal, whom he had never been able to endure, grew violently angry, and said in twenty houses that he had not come out of one prison to throw himself into another.
This polished man of Portugal, who had come into the gang very late in the day, was one of the few people who were privileged to offer blunt opposition to the leader of the Boundary Gang. "You might as well say it is I, or that it is Crewe, or Dempsey, or Selby " "Or White," said the colonel slowly; "don't forget White." They stared at him. "What do you mean?" asked Crewe with a frown.
It may now be said of this settlement that no trace of it has ever been found, although the report that the Norsemen paid many visits to the shore of North America is undoubtedly true. Another bold sea rover of Portugal sailed four hundred miles from land, where he picked up a strangely carved paddle and several pieces of wood of a sort not to be found in Europe. St.
While he stood gazing at Satan we vanished away and landed in Ceylon. I was sorry for that man; sorry Satan hadn't been his customary self and killed him or made him a lunatic. It would have been a mercy. Satan overheard the thought, and said: "I would have done it but for his wife, who has not offended me. She is coming to him presently from their native land, Portugal.
He came to lean upon O'Moy's writing-table, facing the adjutant. "Surely, sir, our interests England's interests and Portugal's are one in this." "To be sure. But England's interests can be defended elsewhere than in Portugal, and it is Lord Wellington's view that they shall be.
Gradually the Moors had been driven back, and the little independent Christian states had been united by the fortunes of war and marriage into three Portugal on the Atlantic coast, Castile occupying the larger part of the mainland, and Aragon, a maritime kingdom, less extensive in Spain, but extending its sovereignty over many of the Mediterranean isles, over Sicily and southern Italy.
When the native money is worth more than the par in foreign, exchange is high; when worth less, it is low. Portugal trade Spanish trade Artificers Money Exchange Par of exchange Balance of trade Manufactures Foundry Coin Gold Silver Naval Power Council of trade Fishery. Money coined in England from the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Quere.
They even penetrated sometimes a considerable way into the interior, and carried off the Arabs of both sexes, whom they sold as slaves in Portugal. Leaving Arguin we sailed along the coast to the river Senegal , which is very large, and divides the people called Azanaghi, or Azanhaji, from the first kingdom of the Negroes.
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