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
| Samuel Butler - 1859 - 400 páginas
...falling from dispute to fight, The Couj'rer's worsted by the Knight. PART II. CANTO III.1 OUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat...feel most delight, That least perceive a juggler's slight, And still the less they understand, 5 The more th' admire his slight of hand. Some with a noise,... | |
| Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd, Recreations - 1861 - 474 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... | |
| J. F. Foard - 1861 - 592 páginas
...imposed on ; they prefer it. He is at least as good an impostor as any other. You know the lines, ' Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat.' " I was not satisfied, but I departed with this assurance. Recently, on an offer to expose a similarly... | |
| Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1861 - 482 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. LJ I would gladly think that the man who has done. another feels it as blistering to remember the fact... | |
| Edward William Cox - 1861 - 586 páginas
...as in Hudibras,— BYLES, J.— To defraud no doubt means to deceive, but it means something more. " Doubtless, the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat." To defraud is to cheat a person out of something. Ballantine, Sergt.—The word defraud is no doubt... | |
| Helen Modêt - 1863 - 360 páginas
...forehead. " But you and the dear child shall stay with me. Nothing shall divide us now ! " CHAPTEE XVII. " Doubtless the pleasure is as great . Of being cheated, as to cheat." BUTLER'S HUDIBBAS. " MONA," said Mrs. Harcourt, " why do you allow Mr. Maxwell to pay you such marked... | |
| John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 páginas
...or woe upon thy life ! SHAKSPEEE. — Othello, Act III. Scene 3. (Othello to lago.) DOUBTLESS. — Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat. BUTLEE — Hudibras, Part II. Canto III. DOUBTS. — O, what damned minutes tells he o'er, Who dotes... | |
| George Musgrave Musgrave - 1864 - 302 páginas
...is mere fancy ; but the vendor and the buyer are well matched. The unanimity is wonderful, and — " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat." But ' ' pauli) majora canamus." Before half-past six o'clock the "parloir" or reception-room was, thrown... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1864 - 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 ;t As lookers-on feel most delight, That least perceive a juggler's Bight, And still the less they... | |
| William Sandys, Simon Andrew Forster - 1864 - 600 páginas
...these matters, who have sufficient confidence, and believe somewhat in the lines of Hudibras — " Doubtless the pleasure is as great, Of being cheated as to cheat." In the eighteenth century these imitations were numerous, and were generally called Midwalders. They... | |
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