[Ads-l] humbug, June 1749 (antedating?)

[Stephen Goranson]

OBSERVATIONS on the Art of PUFFING; or the Love of Authors to themselves, and the good Opinion they usually entertain of their own performances; with some Remarks on the Selfapplause of another Set of Publick People, The Players, and particularly of the modern Prince of that motley Community.
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Whoever you please<https://search.proquest.com/britishperiodicals/indexinglinkhandler/sng/au/Whoever+you+please/$N?accountid=10598>. British magazine, 1746-1751<https://search.proquest.com/britishperiodicals/pubidlinkhandler/sng/pubtitle/British+magazine,++1746-1751/$N/2880/PagePdf/5333093/fulltextPDF/5929C5369B9413EPQ/1?accountid=10598>; London (Jun 1749): page 223, col. 2

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They will never have enough guts in their brains, to find out, that there are others, whom I have the wit not to name, who may dispute these points with me, and thus I shall _humbug_ them clean, by giving them my own praise, while they suppose some other impudent fellow is having a fling at me. <end>

Stephen Goranson
http://people.duke.edu/~goranson/
Stephen Goranson's Home Page - Duke University<http://people.duke.edu/~goranson/>
Stephen Goranson. goranson "at" duke "dot" edu. Jannaeus.pdf. My paper on the history of Alexander Jannaeus as the Qumran- and Essene-view "Wicked Priest" and Judah the Essene as the "Teacher of Righteousness" (3 August 2005 [revised 12 January 2006]; 34 pages), "Jannaeus, His Brother Absalom, and Judah the Essene ". Dura-Europos.pdf "7 vs. 8: The Battle Over the Holy Day at Dura-Europos"
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