DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat : As lookers-on feel most delight, That least perceive a juggler's slight; And still the less they understand, The more th The Humbugs of the World - Página 220por Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1866 - 424 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Egerton Smith - 1831 - 656 páginas
...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... | |
| 1844 - 440 páginas
...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 story,... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1835 - 340 páginas
...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 feeTmost delight That least perceive a juggler's sleight, And still, the less they understand, The... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1835 - 518 páginas
...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... | |
| Robert Folkestone Williams - 1835 - 256 páginas
...that, to use a couplet by a defunct scribbler, ** And what does all this prove ?" I inquired. ' Surely the pleasure is as great • Of being cheated as to cheat.' As an instance I name yourself. You have received a letter this morning full of sweet compliments and... | |
| Archibald Bell - 1835 - 456 páginas
...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... | |
| Archibald Bell - 1835 - 456 páginas
...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... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1835 - 460 páginas
...lawyers, physicians, and divines, but even in the questionable garb of wizards and fortune-tellers. » Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat;] Swift, in the Tale of a Tub, (digression on madness) places happiness in the condition of being well... | |
| 642 páginas
..." in the case of a lady in a linen-shop— ' Doubtless the pleasure is as yrcat Of being cheated us to cheat : As lookers-on feel most delight, That least perceive a juggler's sleight.' " After all," said my companion, after a long pause, in which I was meditating my retreat from his... | |
| The London and Westminster Review April-August,1838 - 1838 - 612 páginas
...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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