Excerpt from The Lusiad; Or the Discovery of India; An Epic Poem: Translated From the Original Portuguese of Luis De Camo???ns In contradif'tin???tioh to the Iliad and Eneid, the Paradife Loft has been called th pic Poehi (if Religion: In the fame manner may the Lufiad be named the Epic Poem of Commerce. The happy ycompletion of the theft important defigns of Henry Duke of Vifeo, Prince of Portu a]; to whom Europe owes both Gama and Columbus, both the ueaft'ern and the Wefiein Worlds, confiitutes the fiibje???t of that c ...
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Excerpt from The Lusiad; Or the Discovery of India; An Epic Poem: Translated From the Original Portuguese of Luis De Camo???ns In contradif'tin???tioh to the Iliad and Eneid, the Paradife Loft has been called th pic Poehi (if Religion: In the fame manner may the Lufiad be named the Epic Poem of Commerce. The happy ycompletion of the theft important defigns of Henry Duke of Vifeo, Prince of Portu a]; to whom Europe owes both Gama and Columbus, both the ueaft'ern and the Wefiein Worlds, confiitutes the fiibje???t of that c'elebrate'd Epic Poem; (knoi'1 hitherto in England almoft only by name) which llz's now offeried: to the Englifh Reader. But before we' proceed to the hiftorical introdu???'cion necefi'ary to elucidate 'a poem fonded or'i_ fuch an important period of hiftory, fome attention is dtic to the opi 111011 of 1116123 Theor'ifts in political philofophy who lament that either India was ever difcovered, and who affert that the in creafe: of Trade is only the parent of degeneracy, and the nurfe of ey'???ry vice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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