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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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Hudibras, Volumen2

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,...
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The Recreations of a Country Parson. Second Series

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...
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The Life and Correspondence of Francis Bacon

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...
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The Recreations of a Country Parson

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...
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Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the ..., Volumen8

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...
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Light

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...
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An index to familiar quotations selected principally from British authors ...

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...
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Ten Days in a French Parsonage in the Summer of 1863, Volumen2

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...
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Hudibras

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...
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The History of the Violin, and Other Instruments Played on with the Bow from ...

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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