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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... "
Works - Seite 278
von Samuel Johnson - 1811
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A Collection of Familiar Quotations: With Complete Indices of Authors and ...

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...
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Drafts for acceptance, Band 478

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...
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The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler, Band 1

Samuel Butler - 1857 - 374 Seiten
...the science astrologic ; Till, falling from dispute to fight, 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 sleigh*, And still, the less they...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Band 42

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...
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Yes and no; or, Glimpses of the great conflict, Band 3

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...
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The Recreations of a Country Parson

Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1861 - 482 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. LJ I would gladly think that the man who has done. another feels it as blistering to remember the fact...
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Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the ..., Band 8

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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The Life and Correspondence of Francis Bacon

J. F. Foard - 1861 - 592 Seiten
...imposed on ; they prefer it. He is at least as good an impostor as any other. You know the lines, ' Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat.' " I was not satisfied, but I departed with this assurance. Recently, on an offer to expose a similarly...
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The Recreations of a Country Parson. Second Series

Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd, Recreations - 1861 - 474 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...
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Light

Helen Modêt - 1863 - 360 Seiten
...forehead. " But you and the dear child shall stay with me. Nothing shall divide us now ! " CHAPTEE XVII. " Doubtless the pleasure is as great . Of being cheated, as to cheat." BUTLER'S HUDIBBAS. " MONA," said Mrs. Harcourt, " why do you allow Mr. Maxwell to pay you such marked...
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