[11] The editor saw her at Philadelphia, where she exhibited _once_ to a small audience, and then disappeared. [12] This lover of truth, at the commencement of his pamphlet, with consummate assurance thus proposes himself as a private tutor: “Gentlemen who are desirous _to secure_ their children from ill example, by a domestic education, or are themselves inclined to gain or retrieve the knowledge of the Latin tongue, may be waited on at their houses, by the author of the following essay, upon the receipt of a letter directed to the publisher or author.--N.B. Mr. Lauder’s abilities, and industry in his profession, can be well attested by persons of the first rank in literature in this metropolis.” [13] “Dr. Johnson, who had been so far imposed upon by Lauder, as to furnish a preface and postscript to his work, now dictated a letter for him, addressed to Dr. Douglas, acknowledging his fraud in terms of suitable contrition. This extraordinary attempt of Lauder’s was no sudden effort; he had brooded over it for years, and it is uncertain what his principal motive was.”--_Boswell’s Life of Johnson._ [14] The modern mode of copying coins enables any one with industry to possess a large cabinet. [15] Dark blue is called, by the modern Egyptians, _eswed_, which properly signifies _black_, and is therefore so translated here. [16] Mr. Matthews, the comedian, in his “Humours of a Country Fair,” has hardly exaggerated, in describing a quack thus reading acknowledgments from those cured by his specific. ‘Sir,--I was cut in two in a saw-pit, and cured by one bottle.’ ‘Sir,--By the bursting of a powder-mill, I was blown into ten thousand _anatomies_. The first bottle of your incomparable collected all the parts together; the second restored life and animation--before the third was finished, I was in my usual state of health.’ This hardly exceeds a reasonable satire on the presumptuous promises that _still_ frequently accompany each bottle or box licensed from _the Stamp Office_! Transcriber’s Notes: - Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). - A few obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. - Otherwise spelling and hyphenation variations remain unchanged. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Sketches of Imposture, Deception, and Credulity, by R. A. (Richard Alfred) Davenport