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Truthfulness and falsehood

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Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by Miriam J. Metzger and Andrew J. Flanagin (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
Illustrations of Lying, in All its Branches (from the second London edition; Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1829), by Amelia Opie (multiple formats at Google)
A Lie Never Justifiable: A Study in Ethics (1856), by H. Clay Trumbull (Gutenberg text)
Tales: Being Illustrations of Lying, in All its Branches (with other edition; this title Cooperstown, NY: H. and E. Phinney, 1840), by Amelia Opie (PDF at archive.org)
The psychology of children's lies, with a selected bibliography on general child psychology and the treatment of childen's difficulties (R. G. Badger, 1932), by Maurice Haim Krout (page images at HathiTrust)
On the influence of religion upon truthfulness; being two chapters from an historical enquiry into the influence of religion upon the moral civilisation (Watts & co., 1913), by Frank Hill Perrycoste (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Illustrations of lying : in all its branches (Published by J. C. Gerrish, 1832), by Amelia Alderson Opie (page images at HathiTrust)
Tim Orton and other poems (Baker & Godwin, printers, 1874), by Luke Revere (page images at HathiTrust)
Das Verhältniss der öffentlichen Meinung zu Wahrheit und Lüge im 10. 11. und 12. Jahrhundert (W. Weber, 1884), by Georg Ellinger (page images at HathiTrust)
Integrity and agreement : economics when principles also matter (University of Michigan Press, 2008), by Lanse Minkler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Wahrheitsfanatismus und Autosuggestion in der Dichtung. (K. Prochaska, 1908), by Friedrich Eugen Hirsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Self-deceit. [A comedy on lies; a way of overcoming them] (Pendle Hill, 1949), by Frederick William Faber (page images at HathiTrust)
Pathological lying, accusation, and swindling; a study in forensic psychology (Little, Brown, 1915), by William Healy and Mary Tenney Healy (page images at HathiTrust)
Constraint areas and the moral judgment of children (George Banta publishing company, 1937), by Eugene Lerner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Catholic teaching about the morality of falsehood (Catholic Univ. of America Press, 1948), by Julius A 1911- Dorszynski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Lüge in psychologischer, philosophischer, juristischer, pädagogischer, historischer, soziologischer, sprach- und literaturwissenschaftlicher und entwicklungsgeschichtlicher Betrach-tung (J.A. Barth, 1927), by Otto Lipmann and Paul Plaut (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Illustrations of lying in all its branches (Robert Carter & Brothers, 1850), by Amelia Alderson Opie (page images at HathiTrust)
Illustrations of lying : in all its branches (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825), by Amelia Alderson Opie (page images at HathiTrust)
On truth-telling and the problem of children's lies (Abingdon Press, 1913), by William Byron Forbush and American Institute of Child Life (page images at HathiTrust)
De notione atque turpitudine mendacii : commentatio (Typis Dieterichianis, 1829), by P. Chr. Kierkegaard (page images at HathiTrust)
Illustrations of lying, in all its branches. (Monroe and Francis;, 1827), by Amelia Alderson Opie (page images at HathiTrust)
Illustrations of lying, in all its branches (Published by Silas Andrus, 1829), by Amelia Alderson Opie (page images at HathiTrust)
A lie never justifiable. A study in ethics (J. D. Wattles & co., 1893), by H. Clay Trumbull (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Lüge im Urteil der neuesten deutschen Ethiker. (Schöningh, 1914), by Julius Jakobovits (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die unfruchtbarkeit des unwahren; eine rechtsphilosophische erörterung im weltkrieg ... (Helwing, 1915), by August Sturm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Illustrations of lying, in all its branches (J. C. Gerrish, 1829), by Amelia Opie (page images at HathiTrust)
Pathological lying, accusation, and swindling; a study in forensic psychology (Little, Brown, and company, 1926), by William Healy and Mary Tenney Healy (page images at HathiTrust)
The personality of truth (T. Whittaker, 1900), by Thomas A. Jaggar (page images at HathiTrust)
Le mensonge : étude de psycho-sociologie pathologique et normale (F. Alcan, 1909), by G.-L. Duprat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Erinnerung, Aussage und Lüge in der frühen Kindheit. (J.A. Barth, 1922), by Clara Stern (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Illustrations of lying, in all its branches (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827), by Amelia Opie (page images at HathiTrust)
Lozhʹ : t͡iazhkiĭ gri͡ekh. ("Sinodalʹnai͡a tipografī͡ia", 1907) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Illustrations of lying, in all its branches. (Munroe and Francis [etc.], 1826), by Amelia Alderson Opie (page images at HathiTrust)
... Pathological lying, accusation, and swindling; a study in forensic psychology (Little, Brown, and company, 1917), by William Healy and Mary Tenney Healy (page images at HathiTrust)
To the members and adherents of Knox's Church, Hamilton (s.n., 1867), by David McKinnon (page images at HathiTrust)
Truth an essay in moral reconstruction (University Press ;, 1919), by Charles Walston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Einige interessante kinderlügen. ([Berlin, 1906), by Otto Lipmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
De mendacio quid senserit Augustinus (E. Leroux, 1896), by Edouard Récéjac (page images at HathiTrust)
Das Verhältniss der öffentlichen Meinung zu Wahrheit und Lüge im 10. 11. und 12. Jahrhundert (W. Weber, 1884), by Georg Ellinger (page images at HathiTrust)
Paradoxe der conventionellen Lügen (H. Steinitz, 1888), by Karl Bleibtreu (page images at HathiTrust)
On the influence of religion upon truthfulness ; being two chapters from an historical enquiry into the influence of religion upon the moral civilisation. (Watts & co., 1913), by Frank Hill Perrycoste (page images at HathiTrust)
Dishonest criticism : being a chapter of theology on equivocation and doing evil for a good cause. An answer to Dr. Richard F. Littledale (J. Hodges, 1887), by James Jones and Richard Frederick Littledale (page images at HathiTrust)
Pathological lying, accusation, and swindling; a study in forensic psychology (Little, Brown, and company, 1922), by William Healy (page images at HathiTrust)
Ιππίας, Μείζων και Ελάσσων (in Greek), by Plato, trans. by Kyriakos Zambas (Gutenberg ebook)
An Admonition to all lying brethren, or, A cure for the times shewing the begining, folly, un-worthinesse and danger of lying. (London : Printed for J.P., 1642) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Endoxa. English (London : Printed by J. Streater, for Francis Tyton, 1658), by John Robinson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
The liar.: Or, A contradiction to those who in the titles of their bookes affirmed them to be true, when they were false : although mine are all true, yet I terme them lyes. Veritas veritatis. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the yeare, 1641), by John Taylor (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Energiea planēs, or, A brief discourse concerning man's natural proneness to, and tenaciousness of errour whereunto is added some arguments to prove, that that covenant entred with Abraham, Gen. 17.7 is the covenant of grace / J. Whiston ... (London : Printed by J.D. for Jonathan Robinson ..., 1682), by Joseph Whiston (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Truths testimony and a testimony of truths appearing in power, life, light & glory, creating, manifesting, increasing, and vindicating itself in the midst of persecution : wherein is discovered what truth is, and also a lye, who knows it and lives in it : with the authors call and conversion to the truth, his practice in it, his publishing of it, and his several tryals for the same ... : together with the particular accusations brought against him in each tryal and his answers to the same, and also the courts proceedings both by judges and juries : with an humble appeal to His Highness, Oliver, Lord Protector, as a general redress for all people / by Richard Coppin. (London : [s.n.], 1655), by Richard Coppin (HTML at EEBO TCP)

Filed under: Truthfulness and falsehood -- Drama

Green Stockings: A Comedy in Three Acts (New York and London: S. French, c1914), by A. E. W. Mason
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Master Pierre Patelin; a farce in three acts (W.H. Baker & Co., 1914), by Richard Thayer Holbrook (page images at HathiTrust)
The truth; a play in four acts. (Samuel French, 1907), by Clyde Fitch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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