Portugal

Examples

• Fish is one of the principal articles with which the North Americans trade to Spain, Portugal, and the Mediterranean. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The foreign commerce of Portugal is of older standing than that of any great country in Europe, except Italy. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is upon this principle that the treaty of commerce between England and Portugal, concluded in 1703 by Mr Methuen, has been so much commended. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The profits of it only are spent in Spain and Portugal, where they help to support the sumptuous profusion of the merchants of Cadiz and Lisbon. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• All the sanguinary laws of Spain and Portugal are not able to keep their gold and silver at home. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The islands belong to Portugal, and everything in Fayal has Portuguese characteristics about it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Spain and Portugal furnish but a small part of it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Spain and Portugal, the countries which possess the mines, are, after Poland, perhaps the two most beggarly countries in Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Spain and Portugal, indeed, are supposed to have gone backwards. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Cork is the outer bark of a species of oak which grows in Spain, Portugal and other southern parts of Europe and in the north of Africa. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Portugal, however, is but a very small part of Europe, and the declension of Spain is not, perhaps, so great as is commonly imagined. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Those metals ought naturally, therefore, to be somewhat cheaper in Spain and Portugal than in any other part of Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The bounty upon the exportation of corn necessarily operates exactly in the same way as this absurd policy of Spain and Portugal. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Through the court--Portugal Street--the Court for Relief of--you know. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• They expected soon to conquer the other seven, when Portugal recovered its independency by the elevation of the family of Braganza to the throne. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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