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Excerpt from The Lusiad, or the Discovery of India, Vol. 1: An Epic Poem
IF a concatenation of events centered in one great action, events which gave birth to the pre fent commercial fyftem of the world; if thefe be of the firit importance in the civil billory of man. Kind, the Lufiad, of all other poems, challenges the attention of the philofopher, the politician, and the gentleman.
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