Hunting a Mythical Pall-bearer
Moncure D Conway
Genre: | Essay |
Subjects: | Psychology, Error |
Publications cited: | Cobbe 1867 |
After reflecting on the former 'certainty that I had seen [...] in my boyhood' an inscription on a gravestone that is now known to be apocryphal, observes that 'such are the Fallacies of Memory, whereof Miss Cobbe has written cleverly' (211). | |
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