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Excerpt from Portuguese Conversation-Grammar Wishing to make use, so far as is possible, of original Portuguese in the Reading Exercises, and this of the purest and most popular kind, I was fortunate enough to fall in with what proved to be a real mine of legitimate linguistic gold, both in subject and in the form in which it is presented. The student will notice that the greater part of the Reading lessons is taken from Trindade Coelho, a modern Portuguese writer who is acknowledged to be the most accomplished in popular language, whose literary excellence has been recognised, and whose tragic destiny has called forth expression of sympathetic sorrow wherever he has been known I have profited by this great pedagogue's three Livros de Leitura, described as wonderful reading-books for public instruction by Dr. Carolina Michaelis de Vasconcellos, the learned woman, respected by all Romanists, hitherto holding a professorship in the University of Lisbon. 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.