And since falsehood may be diversified without end, it is not unlikely that every man admits an imposture in some respect peculiar to himself, as his views have been accidentally directed, or his ideas particularly combined.
He that suffers by imposture has too often his virtue more impaired than his fortune.
For months after determining not to commit the imposture he had discussed the decision among his friends.
He had gone about elated with the knowledge of his honesty--not only the honesty of refraining from the imposture but the honesty of sparing the public a work likely to undermine its morals.
You are a witness of imposture and a supporter of it,--and we are none of us worthy to be called men if we do either of these two things.
Not THEY were to blame; but the men who invented the imposture and encouraged the slaughter.
Is it for the credit of this philosophical age, that so bungling an imposture should deceive seven clergymen into a public act of exorcism?
That he was detected in an imposturewith respect to the clenching of his hands.
I acted the part of Salinator to perfection and my imposture succeeded completely.
Such imposture as I have enticed you into cannot have been palatable to a man of your character.
This miracle was soon bruited abroad; and the two priests, finding the imposture to succeed beyond their own expectations, began to extend their views, and to lay the foundation of more important enterprises.
But whatever care Simon might take to convey instruction to his pupil Simnel, he was sensible that the imposture would not bear a close inspection; and he was therefore determined to open the first public scene of it in Ireland.
This last gentleman especially was not likely to subject himself to the reproach of so great a crime, by an imposture which, it appears, did not acquire him the favor of Henry.
We know with certainty whence the whole imposture came, namely, from the intrigues of the duchess of Burgundy.
Henri de Gondi, Cardinal Bishop of Paris, had her examined by five of the faculty; three were of opinion that there was a great deal of imposture and a little disease.
There follows a delightful comedy scene between him and Algernon, whose imposture he cannot expose without betraying himself.
As to Algernon, he is forgiven because he explains that his imposture was undertaken solely to see Cecily, and so the comedy ends happily as all good comedies should.
They have to discover not only what the disease is in real patients, but also frequently to detect well planned and well sustained imposture in those who are not diseased at all.
Well, that is the sort of imposture with which he fed his audience.
Imposture shrinks from light, And dreads the curious eye; But sacred truths the test invite, They bid us search and try.
And there is some mistake about Mr. Benn's criticism that "the repeated charges of fraud and imposture brought against the Apostles and Evangelists .
He had contrived at once to make it hateful and to make it ridiculous; and it is a great theistic poet of our own day that has pronounced his blade the sharpest, shrewdest steel that ever stabbed To death Imposture through the armour joints.
The others were declared not to exist, or to be the result of imposture and mal-observation,--and perhaps they were.
No imposture was detected, and no reader of Montalembert can doubt his good faith, nor the sincerity of his kindness and piety.
Is there a method of imposture handed down by one generation of bad little girls to another?
He denies the truth of a report that an imposture was discovered, but admits that when Charles II.
One thing is certain, the noises did not begin in an attempt at imposture on Parsons's part; he was on good terms with his lodgers, when Fanny was first disturbed.
In Mr. Lewes's own experience, which was large, 'the means have always been proved to be either deliberate imposture .
Salmon, the learned and acute Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, has twice tried to explain the phenomena as the results of deliberate imposture by Hetty Wesley, alone, and unaided.
He expressed great indignation at the imposture of the Cock Lane ghost, and related, with much satisfaction, how he had assisted in detecting the cheat, and had published an account of it in the newspapers.
In that affair the child was driven by threats to make counterfeit noises, but, as to the method of imposture at Orleans, nothing is said in the contemporary legal document.
I affirm that the singular and sublime character claimed by Jesus can be traced neither to imposture nor to an ungoverned, insane imagination.
To imagine it to be the production of imposture or enthusiasm shows a strange unsoundness of mind.
The curious mixture of utter imposture and of genius for observation which a traveller can detect in Douville renders him worthy of a monograph.
I thought your book an imposture; I think it an imposture still.
There were those who doubted at the time, and had an unpleasant sense that Johnson had been wheedled by an adventurer; but demonstration of the imposture of Savage did not come till the middle of the present century.
When you see that book, you will be surprised at the exposure of sophistries, disingenuousness, and downright falsehoods, which it will lay before the world; and you will see the charge of systematic imposture proved upon the papal church.
You will see an account of this impious Romish imposturein the next Quarterly.
The sharper follows out his long career of successful fraud and imposture century after century.
His imposture was presently discovered, and he paid a second visit to the Mansion House, but this time as a prisoner.
Not an imposturein the ordinary sense of the word.
But such imposturecan never maintain its ground long.
But such imposturecan never long maintain its ground.
That Religion was no better than an Imposture supported by Art, and Ignorance: And that when Men's Understandings were awake, and their Eyes a little open, they would have more discretion than to be at any expence about the Gods.
And as for Young Fashion, excepting Couplers Letter, he has all imaginable Marks of Imposture upon him.
And now we come to that marvellous piece of disease and imposture combined, the notorious case of "Bargarran's Daughter.
