id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7924 Francisco Luís Gomes - Wikipedia .html text/html 2751 243 66 Gomes became internationally renowned as an eminent economist and political scientist due to his principal works which were published while he was incumbent in the Cortes Gerais.[4] His view was that economics was inseparable from politics, and as such, he devoted a large part of his life to its study.[8] In 1861, Gomes wrote his first work; a 34-page treatise on the subject in French entitled "De la question du cotton en Angleterre et dans les possessions portugaises d' Afrique Occidentale" (The issue of cotton in England and the Portuguese possessions of West Africa).[9] This work earned him recognition in Europe as an eminent economist.[8] Gomes' other notable works included a biography written in Portuguese of the brigadiers Henrique Carlos Henriques and Joaquim Xavier Henriques, and in French of Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquess of Pombal (1869).[2] He cherished his mother-tongue, Konkani, and made significant contributions towards a revised edition of Arte da lingoa Canarim (Art of the Canarim language), the Konkani grammar by the 16th-century English Jesuit, Fr. Thomas Stephens.[1] He also wrote an unpublished Konkani grammar dedicated to the Portuguese civil servant and Konkani revivalist Joaquim Heliodoró da Cunha Rivara.[9] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7924.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7924.txt