. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. Portuguese Peasantry. 326. Friar and Nun. bable, still cherish in secret. There are, in Portugal,about 550 religious houses, of which 150 are nunneries*(Jiff. 326.). The number of two archbishops and thir-teen bishops is not so disproportionate. The literature of Portugal, during the period of itsglory, was by no means contemptible. The genius andfate of Camoens spread his name throughout Europe, andentitled him to rank among the few modern epic the students of
. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. Portuguese Peasantry. 326. Friar and Nun. bable, still cherish in secret. There are, in Portugal,about 550 religious houses, of which 150 are nunneries*(Jiff. 326.). The number of two archbishops and thir-teen bishops is not so disproportionate. The literature of Portugal, during the period of itsglory, was by no means contemptible. The genius andfate of Camoens spread his name throughout Europe, andentitled him to rank among the few modern epic the students of Portuguese literature, however, SaaMiranda and Antonio Ferreyra are reckoned scarcelysecond to him; and Rodriguez Lobo held the nation longenchanted by the sweetness of his pastorals. At thesame time Di Barros, Castanheda, and Faria y Sousa,recorded, in magnificent though somewhat mflated historical narrative, the mighty exploitsof their countrymen in the Afi-ican and Indian seas. The subjection to Spain graduallydivested Portuguese literature of its manly and energetic character. The muse of historywas silent; poetry assumed the form only of th
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