All 9 Uses of
Lisbon
in
Candide
- At the end of two months, being obliged to go to Lisbon about some mercantile affairs, he took the two philosophers with him in his ship.†
Chpt 4 *
- While he reasoned, the sky darkened, the winds blew from the four quarters, and the ship was assailed by a most terrible tempest within sight of the port of Lisbon.†
Chpt 4
- He was just going to jump after him, but was prevented by the philosopher Pangloss, who demonstrated to him that the Bay of Lisbon had been made on purpose for the Anabaptist to be drowned.†
Chpt 5
- As soon as they recovered themselves a little they walked toward Lisbon.†
Chpt 5
- The city of Lima, in America, experienced the same convulsions last year; the same cause, the same effects; there is certainly a train of sulphur under ground from Lima to Lisbon.†
Chpt 5
- If there is a volcano at Lisbon it cannot be elsewhere.†
Chpt 5
- After the earthquake had destroyed three-fourths of Lisbon, the sages of that country could think of no means more effectual to prevent utter ruin than to give the people a beautiful _auto-da-fe_[6]; for it had been decided by the University of Coimbra, that the burning of a few people alive by a slow fire, and with great ceremony, is an infallible secret to hinder the earth from quaking.†
Chpt 6
- How is it possible, said I, that the beloved Candide and the wise Pangloss should both be at Lisbon, the one to receive a hundred lashes, and the other to be hanged by the Grand Inquisitor, of whom I am the well-beloved?†
Chpt 8
- They coasted France; they passed in sight of Lisbon, and Candide trembled.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
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(Lisbon) capital and largest city and economic and cultural center of Portugal