 | John Frederick Wood - 1862 - 194 Seiten
...name — can be found to believe them, realising the words of Butler, if we quote them rightly, — " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat." — Hudibrtu. If we had inspired the first year wo wrote the confidence now placed in us, we should... | |
 | 1847 - 508 Seiten
...required is 28. LEGERDEMAIN. -' 'I.""'..''.'''". •",',",'' '•'" '..; ,.. THE BALANCED EGO. PAGE 319 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,... | |
 | George Musgrave Musgrave - 1848 - 314 Seiten
...recurrence. " For the nonce," I should have been better pleased if, on the Hudibrastic principle, that, — " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat !" these hymning veiled ones had retired — cross, book, and wax-candle, flag, feather and fire —... | |
 | 1849 - 770 Seiten
...is esteemed as a clever device of those who think, with Cesar, that mankind are governed by words. " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat." But, like other pleasures, this may surfeit and pall. At any rate, it is essential to the enjoyment... | |
 | George Walker - 1850 - 406 Seiten
...latter fully capable of sounding their own trumpets. GW Stock Exchange., 1850. THE CHESS AUTOMATON. " Doubtless, the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat." — BUTLER. MAN may be fairly styled an animal of the class " gullible." From the hour of his birth... | |
 | William Furniss - 1850 - 498 Seiten
...consequence whether they were antiques or not ; and independent of the truth of the lines which say — '' Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat ;" we are fully convinced that disbelief creates suspicion, suspicion doubt, doubt makes skeptics,... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1852 - 776 Seiten
...sterling, diverted from the legitimate current of honest, scientific labour ? Oh, says the same worthy, Doubtless the pleasure is as great, Of being cheated as to cheat. There are plenty of them deriving a large income from the residuary practice, with which we do not... | |
 | Edward Josiah Stearns - 1853 - 340 Seiten
...the proceeds in a new venture, and a paying one, too, for there is no end to human gullibility : " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat/' if not a little greater ; and this innocent pleasure Mrs. Stowe has very benevolently ministered to,... | |
 | Edward Josiah Stearns - 1853 - 328 Seiten
...the proceeds in a new venture, and a paying one, too, for there is no end to human gullibility : " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat," if not a little greater ; and this innocent pleasure Mrs. Stowe has very benevolently ministered to,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1854 - 292 Seiten
...Lady, goes in quest Of Sidrophel, the Rosicrueian, To know the dest'nies' resolution ; With whom being met, they both chop logic About the science astrologic...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,... | |
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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... 
