Eminent Liars
Anon
Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous |
Publications extracted: | New Monthly Magazine |
Subjects: | Mental Illness |
The article relates chiefly to the tall tales of a sporting friend of the writer, of whose lies it is observed: 'I shall not attempt to trace the causes of this infirmity of mind; but wherever it exists in the same degree, I consider it as presenting a case for the consideration of the physician rather than of the moralist' (43). | |
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