Sketches of Portuguese Life, Manners, Costume, and Character: : Illustrated by Twenty Coloured Plates
- Author(s): A P. D. G
- Category: Textiles, Clothing & Accessories
- Publisher: The Macmillan Company
- Publish year: 1922
- ISBN: 9678000007148
- Number of Pages: 432
The following sketches were all drawn from life.They lay claim to no merit in composition, beyond that of offering so far as they go a faithful delineation of Portuguese manners,customs,and character.The author has been careful only in observing a rigid adherence to facts and to the respectable and unprejudiced British residents in Portugal who are acquainted, however superficially,with the habits of the people, be appeals with confidence to corroborate the truth of his pictures.
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INTRODUCTION
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.COSTUMES OF LISBON.
CHAPTER II.RAMBLE THROUGH LISBON.
CHAPTER III.RAMBLE THROUGH LISBON.
CHAPTER IV.RAMBLE THROUGH LISBON.
CHAPTER V.RAMBLE THROUGH LISBON.
CHAPTER VI.RAMBLE THROUGH LISBON.
CHAPTER VII.RELIGIOUS PROCESSIONS OF LISBON.
CHAPTER VIII.PORTUGUESE EQUIPAGES.
CHAPTER IX.THE PORTUGUESE COURT.
CHAPTER X.PORTUGUESE MANNERS, FEMALE DRESS,&C
CHAPTER XI.SOME PORTUGUESE CUSTOMS.
CHAPTER XII.PORTUGUESE AMUSEMENTS.
CHAPTER XIII.PORTUGUESE FUNERALS.
CHAPTER XlV.THE PORTUGUESE ARMY, &C.
CHAPTER XV.PORTUGUESE ARCHITECTURE, FURNITURE,GARDENS, &C.
CHAPTER XVI.NEGROES OF LISBON.
CHAPTER XVII.NEGROES OF THE BRAZILS, &C
CHAPTER XVIII.SALOIOS, OR PORTUGUESE PEASANTRY.
CHAPTER XIX.PORTUGUESE VILLAGES, PRODUCTIONS OF THE COUNTRY, &C.
CHAPTER XX. POLITICAL CONSPIRACY AT LISBON IN 1817.