 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
 | George Walker - 1850 - 406 páginas
...latter fully capable of sounding their own trumpets. GW Stock Exchange., 1850. THE CHESS AUTOMATON. " Doubtless, the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat." — BUTLER. MAN may be fairly styled an animal of the class " gullible." From the hour of his birth... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1852 - 776 páginas
...sterling, diverted from the legitimate current of honest, scientific labour ? Oh, says the same worthy, Doubtless the pleasure is as great, Of being cheated as to cheat. There are plenty of them deriving a large income from the residuary practice, with which we do not... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 páginas
...blest With some new joy, cuts off what we possest. Dry den . 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 th' admire the sleight of hand.... | |
 | Edward Josiah Stearns - 1853 - 340 páginas
...the proceeds in a new venture, and a paying one, too, for there is no end to human gullibility : " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat/' if not a little greater ; and this innocent pleasure Mrs. Stowe has very benevolently ministered to,... | |
 | Edward Josiah Stearns - 1853 - 328 páginas
...the proceeds in a new venture, and a paying one, too, for there is no end to human gullibility : " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat," if not a little greater ; and this innocent pleasure Mrs. Stowe has very benevolently ministered to,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 364 páginas
...hanged who unhappily fell under that name. In the first place, the old woman must be prodigiously * Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat ; And lookers-on feel more delight Thai least perceive the juggler's sleight. — HDDIBHAS. — B.... | |
 | esq. George Raymond - 1856 - 294 páginas
...which this Jack Pudding has treated you ever since he has been a visitor amongst you." THE PEDLAR POET. "Doubtless, the pleasure is as great • Of being cheated, as to cheat." PREPARING to quit the agreeable village of , for Gosport, there to meet, for the last time, my friend... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 páginas
...And look before you ere you leap ; For as you sow, y' are like to reap.* Part ii. Canto iii. Line 1. Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 261. He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no. And prove... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1857 - 374 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,...feel most delight That least perceive a juggler's sleigh*, And still, the less they understand, fi The more they' admire his sleight of hand, Some with... | |
 | 1857 - 592 páginas
...buys the products of skill and industry, deserves to be deceived. Dishonesty begets dishonesty, and " doubtless the pleasure is as great of being cheated as to cheat." The state of society is at fault. If " righteousness exalteth a nation,*' and if righteousness means... | |
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