impostor

• I never heard his name mentioned without being told at the same time that he was either a silly madman or a conscious impostor, and as I came with an entirely unprejudiced mind (for I had never heard of Keely before landing in America), it would have been natural to accept this universal opinion Yet something stronger than reason was always silently contradicting these assertions, when made in my presence. —  Seen and Unseen
• If he knew, before any other human being in England, that the Arunta do this very thing to some stone churinga, though seldom to churinga over a foot in length,--and if he imitated the Arunta custom, the impostor was a very learned impostor. —  The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore
• The history of this impostor is given by D’Herbelot, Bibliothèque Orientale (1697 Mokanna forms the first story of Lalla Rookh (“The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan”), by Thomas Moore (1817 Mokattam= (_Mount_), near Cairo (Egypt), noted for the massacre of the Caliph Hakem B’amr-ellah, who was given out to be incarnate deity, and the last prophet who communicated between God and man (eleventh century). —  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
• It was a good time for the impostor, the fanatic, and the demagogue to get in their work. —  A History of American Christianity
• Should he be an impostor, the fraud will soon be discovered and no harm will be done, but woe to all who carelessly turn God’s Messenger from the door because He comes in an unexpected form or time The life and utterances of Bahá’u’lláh testify that He is the Promised One of all the Holy Books, Who has the power to break the seals of the prophecies and to pour forth the “Sealed choice wine” of the divine mysteries. —  Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era

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