Excerpt from José Bonifacio: O Velho E O MoçoNão faz muito tempo, um grande escritor do Rio da Prata escreveu - me, pedindo que lhe indicasse livraria brasileira onde se pudesse prover de eu tores nacionais: nomeava José Bonifácio, o pa triaros da nossa Independência, sábio de repu tação mundial, que ele principalmente queria co nhecer. Corei, comigo mesmo: eu, brasileiro, de uma certa cultura, nada havia lido dêsse grande homem, que tanto interessava ao estrangeiro.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.