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Map of Antangil
Cities & Towns of Antangil
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human minds could have reduced the deplorable situation to such a perfection that for two thousand two hundred years, there has been no need to stir, change, or alter any of the laws, statutes, & policies that were then ordained. What has never been, will not be seen in a Kingdom, nor Monarchy, however well governed & civilized it may be. On the division of these Kingdoms. Principalities & Republics into Provinces, of the establishment of capital cities & of their authority. CHAP. II.The first decree that was made was that all this great continent of land in which there were so many varying dominions, would be united into a single Kingdom, which would be called Antangil which signifies celestial grace,[1] since they had so well agreed to lay the foundations of this permanent & invincible empire, without having any regard to the loss that each one could have suffered in particular of his authority & sovereign power. B 2 |
| 1. The term "grace celeste", the author's given meaning of Antangil & here interpreted as "heavenly grace", or maybe "favored by heaven", as these would be my interpretation of being closest to the author's intended meaning. [SEE—COTGRAVE] However, a more accuracte inteprtaion may be "celestial grace", or "Divine grace".[SEE—COTGRAVE, "grace"] [NOTE: the term "grace celeste" is not an overall common term; one who used this term was Pierre du Jarric (1566–1617) in his work, De L'Histoire des chose plus memorables advenues tant ez Indes Orientales, que autres pais de la descouverie des Portugais..., second part; printer Simon Millanges, Bourdeaus (1610). Jarric was a Jesuit who taught philosophy and moral theology at Bordeaux. This book seems to be on the subject of the exploits and colonization efforts of the Portuguese in the East Indes. Through his publication Jarric hoped to convince the French King to imitate the Portuguese in promoting French colonization in the Orient. Jarric died at *SANTES* in 1617.] |