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Cause, I shall not take upon me to determine: but content myself with saying, that in six Months stay, I never had an opportunity of seeing the inside of a Portugese [Portuguese] Gentlemans House; tho' several of their Noblesse were very civil, when they met us: they never offered more than the civility of the present moment, as a place in the Box at the Opera, &c.
They are said to be extremely Proud, & as ignorant: & from the very little I saw of them, I am much inclined to believe not unjustly. Learning is almost totally confined to their Convents, where indeed it an inferiour Style: for as one of our Poets tell us,
Where none admire, how useless to excell.
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