Quotes About Portuguese

permission to hire only a dozen Portuguese; in reality, he was taking nearly forty with him.

The name Mesquita, meaning mosque, was a common name among Portuguese conversos

The prospect of a Portuguese leading a Spanish expedition through Portuguese waters

Through his privileged position at court, Ferdinand came of age hearing about Portuguese and Spanish discoveries

The Portuguese reacted bitterly to the imminent departure of the Armada de Molucca.

The name might have derived from the Portuguese word brasa, meaning glowing coal

Magellan's nephew, eventually sought refuge in the Portuguese colony of Brazil, where he dictated instructions that suggest the depth of shame stirred

the five ships comprising the Armada de Molucca in Brazil showed how porous and vulnerable the Portuguese

Portuguese did not maintain a permanent settlement there. A small abandoned customshouse served as the sole evidence of the Portuguese occupation.

No Portuguese ships occupied the harbor when Magellan arrived, and he felt safe enough to drop anchor.

edict of the Portuguese king, announced on November 13, 1504

From 1500 to about 1550, not one book concerning Portuguese discoveries was published

My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There's a lot going on there.

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

Summer lightning made it seem that flickering white-hot wires were turning in the terribly blue sky just above the horizon, and the recent storms had driven in toward shore hundreds of gigantic Portuguese man-o'-wars that now hung below the surface of the water like big malignant pearls.

Technology and Heterogeneous Engineering: The Case of Portuguese Expansion John Law

The sight of bribery on the back road of any country is a clear indication that the whole place is corrupt and the regime a thieving tyranny, as Angola has been for the thirty-five years of its independence—and likely much longer, since Portuguese colonial rule was also an extortion racket.

Kingdom of Kongo when European traders arrived. The long-distance trade that transformed Europe also transformed the Kingdom of Kongo, but again, initial institutional differences mattered. Kongolese absolutism transmogrified from completely dominating society, with extractive economic institutions that merely captured all the agricultural output of its citizens, to enslaving people en masse and selling them to the Portuguese in exchange for guns and luxury goods for the Kongolese elite.

The arrival of the Portuguese explorers and traders on the sub-Saharan African coast in the early 1400s would ultimately represent a major new development in the history of the slave trade in Africa in terms of the intensity of its development, the sources of its slaves, and the uses to which its slaves would be put. But initially there was little to distinguish the Portuguese traders from the Muslim traders of North Africa and the sub-Saharan regions.

hardly academically rigorous, revealed that English breakfast tea was misnamed in several ways. It came from India, Sri Lanka and Kenya, not England. It was imported to the British Isles by the Portuguese, who drank it in the afternoon. A Scotsman popularized its consumption at breakfast.

I studied a lot from bossa nova, and I used to listen to it a lot as a kid because my mum would play it. I even wanted to learn Portuguese in high school so I could sing in it.

La península ibérica me parece un minicontinente prodigioso y sueño con el día en que, previo acuerdo con los portugueses, se metamorfosee en República Federal Ibérica.

Portuguese cake-making

The Portuguese and Hebrew words had been finished here and there with high, distinctive arches that sloped backward over the letters they adorned: the roofs of the Portuguese letters sloping to the left, those of the occasional Hebrew verse to the right, the long unbroken lines proceeding down the page like successive rows of cresting waves approaching a shore, one after another, dizzying.