The French despised this poor oppressed people

"The French in the pride of their strength and their ignorance of the national character despised this poor oppressed people too much to be in any fear of what despair might impel them to and one remarkable effect of the general misery tended at once to increase their contempt and their security. There exists in Portugal a strange superstition concerning King Sebastian"

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