The Lusiad, or the Discovery of India

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Excerpt from The Lusiad, or the Discovery of India: An Epic Poem NO lesson can be of greater national importance than the history of the rise and the fall of a com mercial empire. The view of what advantages were acquired, and of what might have been still added, the means by which such empire might have been continued, and the errors by which it was lost, 'are as particularly conspicuous in the na val and commercial history of Portugal, asif Provi dence had intended to give a lasting example to mankind, a chart, where the course of the safe voyage is pointed out, and where the shelves and rocks, and the seasons of tempest, are discovered and foretold. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.