Pombal

Eighteen years later 1777 Pombal was himself disgraced and the honour of the Portuguese Religious vindicated.

Archive 2007-10-14 de Brantigny........................ 2007

Striving to build a greater Portugal, and fettered, as he thought, by the spiritual power of the church over its citizens, Pombal, much like Joseph II in Austria, planned to bring the Church in Portugal altogether under the control of the State.

Archive 2007-10-14 de Brantigny........................ 2007

Pombal, in spite of the taint of some cruelty, in so many respects one of the most powerful and resolute ministers that has ever held office in Europe, had been for some time in England, and was a warm admirer of Voltaire, whose works he caused to be translated into Portuguese.

Voltaire 2007

Striving to build a greater Portugal, and fettered, as he thought, by the spiritual power of the church over its citizens, Pombal, much like Joseph II in Austria, planned to bring the Church in Portugal altogether under the control of the State.

Forerunners of the French Revoloution, part 3c de Brantigny........................ 2007

Eighteen years later 1777 Pombal was himself disgraced and the honour of the Portuguese Religious vindicated.

Forerunners of the French Revoloution, part 3c de Brantigny........................ 2007

Captain Nunes, whose great-grandfather, also a captain in the time of the Marquis of Pombal, received sealed orders, to be opened only on a certain day.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Pombal, marquis de, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello, Portuguese leader

Subject Index Page 61 2001

Pombal said a government team touring the area to assess the damage had been hampered by rains washing away roads.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

Ganganelli, of Pombal, of Aranda; when the very Bourbons of Naples were liberals and reformers, and all the active minds among the noblesse of France were filled with the ideas which were soon after to cost them so dear.

Representative Government 2002

Pombal strongly pressed Portuguese territorial claims.

1693 2001