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Of Falshoods in general

therefore A.B.may affect himself to be Y.Z. without any absolute

certainty of being detected improbability of succeeding. But in

forgery it may be said this cannot be. The Forger A.B. has not the most

distant resemblance to Y.Z. How then can he with any possibility of success

represent himself as being the same person with Y.Z. More than that, the

act of forgery is

day on which the

characters are actually is the 1st of Jan y 1780. In avers the day on

which they are making whereas the day on which he avers

them to have been making is the 1st

of Jan y1770. How thencan he

with any possibility of not being detected assert that

he is the same person with another man whom he has not the least

resemblence to, and whose for person may be as well known

to them to whom he is making the declaration as any mans person can be:

and how can he with any possibility of not being detected assert that the

1st day of Jan y 1770 is the same day with the

1st day of Jan y 1780

The case is that at the time the forger A.B. is averring himself to be the

person Y.Z. neither he not Y.Z. are seen. No person

at all is seen doing the act, it is not seen who the act belonged to:

the act itself is not seen. The person by whom

really the act

is really doing, can not at the

juncture of time at which he is doing it be

made to undergo that comparison with the person by whom

it is falsely asserted to have been done, by

which it would appear that they are two different

persons. All that is seen is the characters

which