 | Samuel Butler, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 296 Seiten
...being met, they both chop logic About the science astrologic ; Till, falling from dispute to 6ght, The Conj'rer's worsted by the Knight. 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 364 Seiten
...hanged who unhappily fell under that name. In the first place, the old woman must be prodigiously * Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat ; And lookers-on feel more delight Thai least perceive the juggler's sleight. — HDDIBHAS. — B.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 Seiten
...And look before you ere you leap ; For as you sow, y' are like to reap.* Part ii. Canto iii. Line 1. Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 261. He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no. And prove... | |
 | esq. George Raymond - 1856 - 294 Seiten
...which this Jack Pudding has treated you ever since he has been a visitor amongst you." THE PEDLAR POET. "Doubtless, the pleasure is as great • Of being cheated, as to cheat." PREPARING to quit the agreeable village of , for Gosport, there to meet, for the last time, my friend... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1857 - 374 Seiten
...The Knight, with various doubts possest, To win the Lady goes in quest Of Sidrophel the Bosycrucian, To know the Dest'nies' resolution : With whom b'ing...pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; As lookers-on feel most delight That least perceive a juggler's sleigh*, And still, the less they understand,... | |
 | 1857 - 592 Seiten
...buys the products of skill and industry, deserves to be deceived. Dishonesty begets dishonesty, and " doubtless the pleasure is as great of being cheated as to cheat." The state of society is at fault. If " righteousness exalteth a nation,*' and if righteousness means... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1859 - 400 Seiten
...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 ;* As lookers-on feel most delight, That least perceive a juggler's slight, And still the less they understand,... | |
 | Henry Robert Reynolds - 1860 - 326 Seiten
...Divine love has ever called its Son, — He sleeps well. CHAPTEE IX. THE EASTERN YES AT THE WEST END. " 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... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1861 - 248 Seiten
...they both chop logic About the science astrologic ; Till falling from dispute to fight, The conjurer's worsted by the knight. 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,... | |
 | Edward William Cox - 1861 - 586 Seiten
...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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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... 
