"Baron Munchausen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... When Bruce's "Travels" were first published, his account of the strange incidents which had occurred to him was very generally disbelieved and ridiculed; "Baron Munchausen" was even written in derision of them; but the discoveries of subsequent travellers have confirmed his ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume II • Horace Walpole
... his readers. His work is a literary curiosity, unexcelled in bibliography, for its bold assumption in attempting to impose on a credulous age a tale of fancied adventures and fictitious observation. He was a veritable Baron Munchausen. ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman |
