 | Samuel Warren, Sir George Stephen, Sir James Stephen - 1839 - 422 σελίδες
...the hall of the Law Institution, as proscribed men. This would speedily work reform. CHAPTER XVI. " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat." — BUTLER. YET it is a pleasure which in duty to our clients, we must deny ourselves, however profitable... | |
 | 1877 - 506 σελίδες
...trick has been played upon you, you are tempted to confess, with the author of Hudibras, that— " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat." A case in which the art of plagiarism appears almost if not quite at its best is to be found in a sermon... | |
 | 1843 - 676 σελίδες
...inherited the greater part of his very handsome fortune ? 393 THE PEDLAR POET. BY GEORGE RAYMOND. " Doubtless, the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat." — BUTLER. PREPARING to quit the agreeable village of Ryde, for Gosport, there to meet, for the last... | |
 | 1859 - 626 σελίδες
...not even made uneasy by the checks of his own conscience. I would gladly think that in most cases, " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat." I would gladly think that the man who has done another feels it as blistering to remember the fact... | |
 | Confessions - 1846 - 418 σελίδες
...those of Herr Rudolph Lugelkopf. CHAPTER VI. " A Daniel ! yea, a very Daniel !" — SHAKESPEARE. " 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... | |
 | Confessions - 1846 - 418 σελίδες
...characterized those of Herr Rudolph Lugelkopf. CHAPTER VI. " A Daniel! yea, a very Daniel!"—SHAKESPEARE. " 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 understand,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 σελίδες
...language, and can never be separated from it Such are the opening lines of Part IL canto three — gather the rose-buds,' call up a summer landscape, with youth, ; As lookers on feel most delight That least perceive a juggler's sleight; And still the less they... | |
 | John Frederick Wood - 1862 - 194 σελίδες
...name — can be found to believe them, realising the words of Butler, if we quote them rightly, — " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat." — Hudibrtu. If we had inspired the first year wo wrote the confidence now placed in us, we should... | |
 | 1847 - 508 σελίδες
...required is 28. LEGERDEMAIN. -' 'I.""'..''.'''". •",',",'' '•'" '..; ,.. THE BALANCED EGO. PAGE 319 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... | |
 | George Musgrave Musgrave - 1848 - 314 σελίδες
...recurrence. " For the nonce," I should have been better pleased if, on the Hudibrastic principle, that, — " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat !" these hymning veiled ones had retired — cross, book, and wax-candle, flag, feather and fire —... | |
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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. 
