A Month in Portugal |
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Author:
| Oldknow, Joseph |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-16030-8 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $14.14 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Oporto.?Situation.?Buildings.?Houses of English residents.? Quinta.?Scenery of the Douro.?Bishop's palace.?Serra Convent.?Confiscation of Church property.?Present Episcopal and Parochial incomes.?Church services.?Character of the Portuguese Clergy.?of the People.?Impostures.? Subjection of the...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Oporto.?Situation.?Buildings.?Houses of English residents.? Quinta.?Scenery of the Douro.?Bishop's palace.?Serra Convent.?Confiscation of Church property.?Present Episcopal and Parochial incomes.?Church services.?Character of the Portuguese Clergy.?of the People.?Impostures.? Subjection of the Church to the State.?Appointment of Bishops and Parish-priests.?Former wealth of the Church and means of education among the Monastic Orders.?Mistake of the Clergy in supporting Dom Miguel.?Line of argument recently adopted by seceders to Rome from the Church of England.?Factory House.?Wine-lodge at Villa Nova.?- Churches.?Sao Francisco.?Tower of the Clerigos.?High Mass at the-Cathedral.?Quarrelling Priests.?English Chapel.?Services.?English Congregations in Foreign Countries.?Importance of their maintaining distinctive Church principles.?Vindication of English Bishops and Priests, ministering to their countrymen abroad. -qpoeto, which we entered on Friday, May 5, about midday, is really a very fine and imposing city. It is situated on the north bank of the Douro, which rises from the river almost precipitously, and thus affords it a noble and striking position, though at the expense of much fatigue to those who have to .perambulate it. The number of its inhabitants is about eighty thousand. Its streets and squares are generally wide and spacious. Some of them are macadamized; but for the most part they are paved with large flat stones, of irregular size and shape, and often not touching one another. The public buildings are handsome, many of them especially so; but the character of the houses is irregular. Here, for instance, is a mansion fit for a nobleman; and there, next door to it, a mean dwelling which no one would occupy above the rank of a small shopkeeper. The hous..