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Date: 1712
"With all thy Whigish-bombast, stuff't with Lies, / Thy Shams, thy Gasconades and Forgeries; / Which to promote, thou hast thy Genius bent, / Set on by Hell, of which thy Brain's the Mint"
preview | full record— Forbes of Disblair (fl. 1765-1771)
Date: 1734
"It can frame new Ideas upon the model of old ones: as when we suppose a Person we have not seen, to resemble one we have seen; and when we frame an Idea of Constantinople from what we have seen of London, or perhaps but from a Map of London. This sort of coining is very often a forging."
preview | full record— Forbes of Pitsligo, Alexander Forbes, Lord (1678-1762)
