OF THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE; TO WHICH IS ADDED, A Copious Vocabulary, AND DIALOGUES, WITH EXTRACTS FROM THE BEST PORTUGUESE AUTHORS. BY A. VIEYRA. TWELFTH EDITION, CAREFULLY REVISED, CORRECTED, AND IMPROVED. "Necesse est enim inter quos mercaturæ et contractuum sint, inter eos LONDON: DULAU & CO., 37 SOHO SQUARE. H. G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1858. EDITOR'S PREFACE TO THE ELEVENTH EDITION. It is hoped that the present Edition will be found greatly improved, particularly when compared with the two last. The Editor has added a few notes, which may be of service to the student; many important errors that had crept into former editions have been carefully corrected, and he has likewise expunged the accents from the Portuguese, whenever they are not commonly used in writing that language, and which had been wrongly added in the two last editions, with the idea of "facilitating the pronunciation." This addition was, in the Editor's opinion, an injudicious one; facilitating the pronunciation by such means would be doing more harm than good. If the student is accustomed from the beginning to see the words so accentuated, he will sub |