 | 1830 - 824 Seiten
...public themselves. If they have been cheated, they have been pleased, and what harm then is done ? Doubtless, "the pleasure is as .great of being cheated as to cheat." They could not eat their cake and have it too. The following announcement was posted up one morning,... | |
 | 1845 - 670 Seiten
...said I, smiling at my stable-philosopher's earnestness, " in die case of a lady in a linen-shop — ' Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat : As lookers-on feel most delight, That least perceive a juggler's sleight.' " After all," said my companion,... | |
 | Egerton Smith - 1831 - 656 Seiten
...success of these impostures would seem to countenance the sneer of one of your satirists, who says, ' Doubtless the pleasure is as great, Of being cheated as to cheat.' Nor has the practice of imposture in the manufacture of antiquities been confined to literature or... | |
 | 1844 - 440 Seiten
...sometimes masks the darkest traits of human villany — like the deceitful lull, before the earthquake. " Doubtless the pleasure is as great, Of being cheated, as to cheat ; As lookers on, feel most delight, Who least perceive a juggler's sleight." At the opening of this story, Evening — beautiful evening... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 340 Seiten
...The Knight, with various doubts possest, To win the Lady goes in quest Of Sidrophel the Rosycrucian, To know the Dest'nies' resolution : With whom b'ing...pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; As lookers-on feeTmost delight That least perceive a juggler's sleight, And still, the less they understand,... | |
 | Archibald Bell - 1835 - 456 Seiten
...well-being of the individual. In testimony whereof, he quotes the dictum of a great philosopher, — Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat. Nearly allied to this, or rather a variety of it, is the AuTO-PARACitousis, or SELF-DELUSION ; under... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 518 Seiten
...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 ;3 As lookers-on feel most delight, That least perceive a juggler's flight, And still the less they... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 460 Seiten
...lawyers, physicians, and divines, but even in the questionable garb of wizards and fortune-tellers. » Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat;] Swift, in the Tale of a Tub, (digression on madness) places happiness in the condition of being well... | |
 | Robert Folkestone Williams - 1835 - 256 Seiten
...that, to use a couplet by a defunct scribbler, ** And what does all this prove ?" I inquired. ' Surely the pleasure is as great • Of being cheated as to cheat.' As an instance I name yourself. You have received a letter this morning full of sweet compliments and... | |
 | Archibald Bell - 1835 - 456 Seiten
...well-being of the individual. In testimony whereof, he quotes the dictum of a great philosopher, — Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat. Nearly allied to this, or rather a variety of it, is the AUTO-PARACROUSIS, or SELF-DELUSION ; under... | |
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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 sleight, And still, the less they understand, The more... 
