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" 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 220
por Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1866 - 424 páginas
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Adventures of an Attorney in Search of Practice, Volumen1

Samuel Warren, Sir George Stephen, Sir James Stephen - 1839 - 422 páginas
...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...
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Lyric Poetry of Glees, Madrigals, Catches, Rounds, Canons, and Duets: As ...

1840 - 652 páginas
...you've been saying. (Mills.) ROUND,/or 3 Voices. — TRAVERS. DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great In being cheated as to cheat ; As lookers-on feel most delight That least perceive the juggler's sleight ; And still the less they understand, The more they admire his sleight of hand....
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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...

1877 - 506 páginas
...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...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volumen13

1843 - 676 páginas
...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...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volumen47

1859 - 626 páginas
...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...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...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, beaut lookers on feel most delight That least perceive a juggler's sleight; And still the less they understand,...
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The Midland florist and suburban horticulturist, conducted by J.F. Wood

John Frederick Wood - 1862 - 194 páginas
...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...
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The Parson, Pen, and Pencil: Or, Reminiscences and Illustrations ..., Volumen2

George Musgrave Musgrave - 1848 - 314 páginas
...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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The American Whig Review, Volumen4;Volumen10

1849 - 770 páginas
...is esteemed as a clever device of those who think, with Cesar, that mankind are governed by words. " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat." But, like other pleasures, this may surfeit and pall. At any rate, it is essential to the enjoyment...
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Waraga, Or, The Charms of the Nile

William Furniss - 1850 - 498 páginas
...consequence whether they were antiques or not ; and independent of the truth of the lines which say — '' Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat ;" we are fully convinced that disbelief creates suspicion, suspicion doubt, doubt makes skeptics,...
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