 | William Hogarth - 1808 - 346 páginas
...maybe equal between the bubbler and the bubbled; at. least this seems to have been Butler's opinion: Doubtless the pleasure is as great In being cheated, as to cheat. CHAPTER XII. OF LIGHT AND SHADE, AND THE MANNER IN WHICH OBJECTS ARE EXPLAINED TO THE EYE BY THEM.... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1811 - 408 páginas
...believe. And if what Hudibras tells us is true, the dear fugitive has also abundance of pleasure to come. Doubtless the pleasure is as great In being cheated, as to cheat. As lookers-on find most dehght, Who least perceive the juggler's sleight : And still the less they... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 282 páginas
...disgust the public in the end, if the public were an animal capable of being disgusted by quackery. But Doubtless the pleasure is as great In being cheated as to cheat. We do not know why we promised last week to give some account of Mr. Kemble's Sir Giles, except that... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 488 páginas
...therefore gives them none. THE TIMES NEWSPAPER. ON THE CONNEXION BETWEEN TOAD-EATERS AND TYRANTS. " Doubtless, the pleasure is as great " In being cheated as to cheat." Ja». 13, 1817. WE some time ago promised our friend, Mr. Robert Owen, an explanation of some of the... | |
 | 1854 - 718 páginas
...his clique of believers. All this is only an illustration of the Hudibrastic maxim, — • Because the pleasure is as great In being cheated as to cheat.' In religion, Joseph Smith has had many predecessors, no less successful than himself. The German Anabaptists,... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1824 - 874 páginas
...And if what Hudibras tells us is true, the dear fugitive has also abundance of pleasure to come : — Doubtless the pleasure is as great In being cheated, as to cheat. As lookers-on find most delight, Who least perceive the juggler's sleight ; And, still the less they... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1824 - 806 páginas
...if what Hudibras tells us is true, the dear fugitive lias also abundance of pleasure to come : — Doubtless the pleasure is as great In being cheated, as to cheat. As lookers-on find most delight, Who least perceive the juggler's sleight ; And, still the less they... | |
 | Henry Charles William Angelo - 1828 - 532 páginas
...renowned Bull family, are quite as characteristic of the nineteenth, as of the seventeenth century. " Doubtless the pleasure is as great, In being cheated — as to cheat." Dominecetti, an Italian doctor, who came to this country about the year 1767, was one of K2 those adventurers... | |
 | Henry Angelo - 1830 - 564 páginas
...renowned Bull family, are quite as characteristic of the nineteenth, as of the seventeenth century. " Doubtless the pleasure is as great, In being cheated — as to cheat." Dominecetti, an Italian doctor, who came to this country about the year 1767, was one of 132 THE STEWING... | |
 | William Thomas Parke - 1830 - 352 páginas
...&c. has afforded that degree of gratification to his auditors, as accords with the poet, who says, Doubtless the pleasure is as great In being cheated as to cheat : A s lookers on feel most delight Who least perceive the juggler's sleight. This exhibitant, who had... | |
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Doubtless the pleasure is as great In being cheated, as to cheat. As lookers-on find most delight, Who least perceive the juggler's sleight ; And still the less they understand, The more admire the sleight of hand. 
