 | 1830 - 824 σελίδες
...public themselves. If they have been cheated, they have been pleased, and what harm then is done ? Doubtless, "the pleasure is as .great of being cheated as to cheat." They could not eat their cake and have it too. The following announcement was posted up one morning,... | |
 | Egerton Smith - 1831 - 656 σελίδες
...success of these impostures would seem to countenance the sneer of one of your satirists, who says, ' Doubtless the pleasure is as great, Of being cheated as to cheat.' Nor has the practice of imposture in the manufacture of antiquities been confined to literature or... | |
 | 1845 - 670 σελίδες
...said I, smiling at my stable-philosopher's earnestness, " in die case of a lady in a linen-shop — ' Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat : As lookers-on feel most delight, That least perceive a juggler's sleight.' " After all," said my... | |
 | 1844 - 440 σελίδες
...sometimes masks the darkest traits of human villany — like the deceitful lull, before the earthquake. " Doubtless the pleasure is as great, Of being cheated, as to cheat ; As lookers on, feel most delight, Who least perceive a juggler's sleight." At the opening of this... | |
 | Archibald Bell - 1835 - 456 σελίδες
...well-being of the individual. In testimony whereof, he quotes the dictum of a great philosopher, — Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat. Nearly allied to this, or rather a variety of it, is the AuTO-PARACitousis, or SELF-DELUSION ; under... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1835 - 362 σελίδες
...unhappily fell under that name. In the firet place, the old woman most, be prodigiously * poubtless the pleasure is as great - Of being cheated as to cheat ; And lookers-on feel more delight •f hat least perceive the juggler's deign* ---- "OOISRA.5* — "•... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 332 σελίδες
...the science astrologic ; Till, falling from dispute to fight, The Conj'rer's worsted by the Knight. DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; As lookers-on feel most delight That least perceive a juggler's sleight, And still, the less they... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 518 σελίδες
...astrologic. 'Till falling from dispute to fight, The Conjurer's worsted by the Knight. HUDIBRAS. CANTO III.' DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ;3 As lookers-on feel most delight, That least perceive a juggler's flight, And still the less they... | |
 | Archibald Bell - 1835 - 456 σελίδες
...well-being of the individual. In testimony whereof, he quotes the dictum of a great philosopher, — Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat. Nearly allied to this, or rather a variety of it, is the AUTO-PARACROUSIS, or SELF-DELUSION ; under... | |
 | The London and Westminster Review April-August,1838 - 1838 - 612 σελίδες
...extortion, profligate expenditure, and civil war ! and intelligent men appear to have believed in them— " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat." The Parliamentarians destroyed the greater part, if not all, of these venerable impostures; and the... | |
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Waller, Poets lose half the praise they would have got, Were it but known what they discreetly blot, " Dick Misty is a man of deep research, and forcible penetration. 
