 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
 | Charlotte Maria Tucker - 1873 - 246 páginas
...quitted the party to which I had casually joined myself by the way. CHAFFER IV. THE WAITING-ROOM. " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated — as to cheat." BUTLEK. SOON entered the town of Nocross, where, at every turn, I found fresh evidence of the immense... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1873 - 280 páginas
...moment without being made to fool . . . that you are not the object of this preference." (Lamb, Ess.) " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat." (Hudibr. II. iii.) " It was that mixture of pushing forward and being pushed forward, which is a brief... | |
 | 1874 - 692 páginas
...They cheat the Lodge by covering up past deeds, and the Lodge neglects the proper investigation. " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat ; As lookers on feel most delight, That least preceive the juggler's sleight ; And still, the less they... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 páginas
...look before you ere you leap ;1 For as you sow, y' are like to reap.2 Part ii. Canto ii. Line 501. Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat. Part ii. Canto iii. Line l. He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or n0. Part ii.... | |
 | Spectre - 1875 - 346 páginas
...Old Countree ; and once in, gel out you could not, whether you were robbing others or being robbed. ' Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat.'— HUDIRRAS. Little wonder then that Balph Osborne fell an easy prey to the Spoilers. He could ' deal'... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 páginas
...look before you ere you leap j1 For as you sow, y' are like to reap.* Part ii. Canto ii. Line 501. Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat. Part ii. Canto iii. Line I. He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no. Part ii.... | |
 | William Green (of Brighton.) - 1876 - 354 páginas
...proper to encourage her. She will return thanks in her native language. That concludes the exhibition !" Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat. Formerly it was much the fashion for Cheap Johns to go in for what was termed " bazaar business," that... | |
 | Irving Browne - 1876 - 212 páginas
...of suffering themselves to be humbugged." A doctrine previously enunciated in substance by Butler: " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat." And by The Spectator : "There is hardly a man in the world, one would think, so ignorant, as not to... | |
 | William Green (of Brighton.) - 1876 - 350 páginas
...proper to encourage her. She will return thanks in her native language. That concludes the exhibition !" Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat. Formerly it was much the fashion for Cheap Johns to go in for what was termed " bazaar business," that... | |
 | 1877 - 362 páginas
...English undefyled, On Fame's eternal beadroll worthie to be fyled. SPESSER, Faerie Queene. Cheated. — Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being CHEATED, as to cheat. — BUTLER, Hudibrat. Cherry Ripe. — CHERRY RIFE, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones. — come... | |
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