out-munchausens

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Then descending lower and still lower; disregarding alike the warning of Lord Bacon 'a credulous man is a deceiver, and of Tacitus fingunt simul creduntque he rakes up even a devotee, Boturini, and makes him also an historic authority, without overtaxing public credulity; though this wretch, as we have seen, out-Munchausens Pietro himself, and as he may have surpassed every other man in Spain in drawing the long bow, was justly selected for historiographer, at a time when death was the penalty for possessing a book not licensed by the Inquisition.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859