| The London and Westminster Review April-August,1838 - 1838 - 612 Seiten
...extortion, profligate expenditure, and civil war ! and intelligent men appear to have believed in them— " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat." The Parliamentarians destroyed the greater part, if not all, of these venerable impostures; and the... | |
| Samuel Warren, Sir George Stephen, Sir James Stephen - 1839 - 422 Seiten
...the hall of the Law Institution, as proscribed men. This would speedily work reform. CHAPTER XVI. " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat." — BUTLER. YET it is a pleasure which in duty to our clients, we must deny ourselves, however profitable... | |
| 1877 - 506 Seiten
...trick has been played upon you, you are tempted to confess, with the author of Hudibras, that— " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat." A case in which the art of plagiarism appears almost if not quite at its best is to be found in a sermon... | |
| 1843 - 676 Seiten
...inherited the greater part of his very handsome fortune ? 393 THE PEDLAR POET. BY GEORGE RAYMOND. " Doubtless, the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat." — BUTLER. PREPARING to quit the agreeable village of Ryde, for Gosport, there to meet, for the last... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 Seiten
...language, and can never be separated from it. Such are the opening lines of Part II. canto three — • Would here vouchsafe nn elegy. She died a wife, but...niiud, Beyond virginity refined, From lawless fire jugglers sleight; And still the less they understand, The more they admire his eleight-of-Land. Or... | |
| 1844 - 480 Seiten
...is 28. LEGERDEMAIN. THE UALANCBD BOG. r'.r..;l Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being chenled as to cheat; As lookers on feel most delight, That least perceive a juggler's sleight, And still the less they understand. The more they admire his sleight of hand. HtlDIMRAS. As... | |
| 1859 - 626 Seiten
...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... | |
| Confessions - 1846 - 418 Seiten
...characterized those of Herr Rudolph Lugelkopf. CHAPTER VI. " A Daniel! yea, a very Daniel!"—SHAKESPEARE. " 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,... | |
| Confessions - 1846 - 418 Seiten
...those of Herr Rudolph Lugelkopf. CHAPTER VI. " A Daniel ! yea, a very Daniel !" — SHAKESPEARE. " 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,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...language, and can never be separated from it Such are the opening lines of Part IL canto three — gather the rose-buds,' call up a summer landscape,...flower«, and music. This is, and ever must be, true poetr sleight; And still the less they understand, The more they admire his sleight-of-hand. Or where the... | |
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