Excerpt from Archivo Nobiliarchico BrasileiroO nosso intuito, publicando este archivo, e o de fazer reviver uma epocha mais brilhante do que aquella que ora atravessamos, sem commental - a e apenas descrevendo com a maior concisão aquelles que a produziram, provando eloquentemente que a grandeza de um paiz não se mede nem pela sua extensão nem pela sua fortuna, mas pela virtude dos seus homens.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.