[123] Id. ii, 472–73. [↑]

[124] Id. pp. 436–40. [↑]

[125] Id. ii, 440–42. Llorente mentions that Clavijo edited a journal named The Thinker, “at a time when hardly anyone was to be found who thought.” A Frenchman, Langle having asserted, in his Voyage d’Espagne, that the Thinker was without merit, the historian comments that if Langle is right in the assertion, it will be the sole verity in his book, but that, in view of his errors on all other matters, it is probable that he is wrong there also. [↑]

[126] Llorente, p. 449. [↑]

[127] Id. ii, 450–51. The book was prohibited, but a printer at Bayonne reissued it with an additional volume of the tracts written for and against it. [↑]

[128] Id. ii, 469–72. [↑]

[129] Buckle, p. 618. [↑]

[130] Id. p. 612. [↑]

[131] Id. p. 613. [↑]

[132] Carnota, The Marquis of Pombal, 2nd ed. 1871, p. 242. [↑]