It is plain, that in this slippery age we live in, it is very easy to make a book look as old as you would have it.
Lord Ch. Justice, in Lady Ivy’s Case;
State Trials, Vol. VII. p. 572.
State Trials, Vol. VII. p. 572.
But hear me further: Japhet, ’tis agreed,
Writ not, and Chartres scarce could write or read,—
In all the Courts of Pindus guiltless quite;
But pens can forge, my friend, that cannot write.
Pope.
Writ not, and Chartres scarce could write or read,—
In all the Courts of Pindus guiltless quite;
But pens can forge, my friend, that cannot write.
Pope.
