...apostrophised in the volume of Royal Geographical Society's Journal last referred to : " Fernan Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude " ! ! ! J He tells us, "Peru was populated five hundred years after the deluge (or above two thousand...

...have been as often quoted as any given passage that can be named,* and which have, * " Fernando Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude! " therefore, aided in perpetuating among Englishmen the notion that poor Pinto was in very deed, the...

...mistress! " Ton my life it's true ! — what will you lay it's a lie?"* Immortal Longbow ! Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude ! Oh, ye eternal bores and button-holders ! who, Menzentius-like, chain the quick to the dead ! —...

...quote without remembering their witty application by the present Bishop of Llandaff,) " Fernam Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, Thou liar of the first magnitude !" Love for Love, Act ii. Sc. 5. were not written until after Mrs. Godolphin's death. Claude's Defence...

...outrageous assertions, and that he could well have rebutted Congreve's slander, " Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude." We know not how it is, but the marvellous is an essential of voyages and travels: and we would not...

...outrageous assertions, and that he could well have rebutted Congreve's slander, " Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude." We know not how it is, but the marvellous is an essential of voyages and travels : and we would not...

...outrageous assertions, and that he could well have rebutted Congreve's slander, " Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude." We know not how it is, but the marvellous is an essential of voyages and travels : and we would not...

...Congreve, in his Love for Love, makes Foresight thus address Sir Sampson Legend : " Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude." like most of his predecessors, however, in early travel, he has by this time recovered much of his...

...Love," makes one of his characters address another in those oft-quoted words : — " Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude ! " It is said also that Cervantes, three or four years before whose death Pinto's book was published,...

...Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, in 1841. FEEDINAND MENDEZ PINTO, " PRINCE OF LIARS." " Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude," says Foresight to Sir Sampson Legend, in Congreve's Love for Love, act ii. sc. 5 ; and Cervantes has...