Iberia Won; A poem descriptive of the Peninsular War / With impressions from recent visits to the battle-grounds, and copious historical and illustrative notes

by T. M. Hughes

Dii multa neglecti dederunt

Hesperiæ mala luctuosæ.

Horat. Carm. iii. 6.

XXXII. “The judge perverts to more pervert the law.”

“They heard sworn judges of the law adjudge, upon such grounds and reasons as every stander-by was able to swear was not law.”—Clarendon, Hist. Great Rebel. i.

“Gives Demon-forms of hate the guise of saints.”

“Cette question curieuse—savoir, s’il est permis aux jesuites de tuer les jansenistes!”—Pascal, Lettres Provinciales, tome i.

XXXII. “The Holy Office Hell delighted saw!”

The operation of the Spanish Inquisition in an intellectual point of view may be inferred from the character of the Index Expurgatorius which was affixed in the different churches. On these prohibitory lists, by the side of the great names of Montesquieu, Robertson, and Filangieri were to be found the titles of the filthiest French romances.