"Lusitanian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to her kind, Gave women all their hearts could wish, When first she taught them where to find White lead, and Lusitanian dish. ...
— The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume I (of 2) • Jonathan Swift
... stubborn spirits—and kept it accordingly. It is an easy matter to refer the peculiarities of the Spanish character to the infusion of Oriental blood; and with some of them it may be the case. But with many of them, the reference is a false one. Half the Spanish character was Iberic and Lusitanian before either Jew or Saracen had seen the Rock ...
— The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies • Robert Gordon Latham
... the commerce for many years, for after the year 1497 [26] the Lusitanian banners in India conquered their coasts, and the Portuguese, masters of the navigation of the Orient, blockaded the ports of the two gulfs—the Persian and the Arabic—with their fleets, preventing the entrance of that commerce there; and, conducting it by the Atlantic Ocean, ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 (Vol 27 of 55) • Various |
