...British comedies, to another whom he is charging with a habit of gross deception, ' Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude !' Here then was another large section of our race, — another family of kindred nations, forming...

...us ; and when young Smith liberated me—she was out of hail for ever! CHAPTER III. Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, * Thou liar of the first magnitude.—CUMBERLAND. THE morning after my departure, the party in Half-moonstreet were at breakfast...

...as of gigantic nations ; but to most of them we may apply the words of Congreve — Fernandez Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, Thou liar of the first magnitude. It is nevertheless true that man exhibits differences of stature in various climes. The Laplanders...

...would say, brother Capricorn. Fore. Capricorn in your teeth, thou modern Mandeville ' Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude ! Take back your paper of inheritance ; send your son to sea again. I'll wed my daughter to an Egyptian...

...is entitled to the highest commendation ? — Barnum, of whom it may be said, ' ' Ferdinando Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee ! thou liar of the first magnitude !" — Wickoff, who exaggerates in foreign countries the humiliating meannesses of his own,— Canot,...

...it can be ; for I saw it cut from the very same sheep, I do assure you, Sir !" (" Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude !") MASTER BETTY. NAPOLEON called England " a nation of shopkeepers :" he might also have termed it...

...knowledge of liars, when he made one of his dramatic characters say to another: ' Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, Thou Liar of the first magnitude !' Pinto was great in his way, but he was a poor romancer, compared with Sir John Mandeville. The elastic...

...it can be ; for I saw it cut from the very same sheep, I do assure you, Sir 1" (" Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude !") MASTER BETTY. NAPOLEON called England " a nation of shopkeepers :" he might also have termed it...

...discreditable associations. The proverbial expression of the English dramatist — " Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude " — has stamped his character, with us, as an impudent divulger of what Swift calls " the thing which...

...stories of cannibals and Amazons, salvages, Portugals, and pigmeys, make one exclaim, ' Fernan Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude ! ' Mr. Cavendish was soon afterwards forsaken by the Roebuck ; the captain and crew of that ship having...