mock-representations

Updated: May 10, 2025

Fifthly, Being incapable of any thing but Mock-Representations, his Ridicule is always Personal, and aimed at the Vicious Man, or the Writer; not at the Vice, or at the Writing.

Joseph Addison - The Spectator, Volume 1: Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays

The objects of these labours is the construction of all sorts of works of fortification, mines and counter-mines, mock-representations of sieges, attack, and defence, the drawing of plans and military surveys, in a word, all the details of the duty of engineers in fortified places and in the field. The number of pupils is limited to twenty. They have the rank and pay of second lieutenant.

Francis W. Blagdon - Paris as It Was and as It Is