Excerpt from Curso de Litteratura Portugueza, Vol. 1Nada mais facil de evidenciar que a importancia da litteratura, e quanto ella contribue para o lustre, digui dade e exaltação de um povo, e não poucas vezes até para muitos dos seus proprios commodos, a querer mos encarar as lettras debaixo das numerosas relações em que ellas se apresentam, e do immenso intluxo que exercem.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.