 | William Hogarth - 1808 - 346 pagina’s
...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.... | |
 | The Rev. Edward Mangin, M.A. - 1811 - 408 pagina’s
...tells us is true, the dear fugitive has also abundance of pleasure to come. Doubtless the pleasure a as great In being cheated, as to cheat. As lookers-on...still the less they understand, The more admire the slight of hand. This my dear juggler's letter to me; the other inner letter sent by Will. MR. LOVELACE,... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1811 - 408 pagina’s
...ease to my conscience, thou must believe. And if what Hudibras tells us is true, the dear fugitive has also abundance of pleasure to come. Doubtless the...being cheated, as to cheat. As lookers-on find most dehght, Who least perceive the juggler's sleight : And still the less they understand, The more admire... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 282 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1824 - 874 pagina’s
...ease to my conscience thou must believe. And if what Hudibras tells us is true, the dear fugitive has also abundance of pleasure to come : — Doubtless...less they understand, The more admire the sleight of baud. THIS my dear juggler's letter to me, — the other inner letter sent by Will : — Thursday,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 462 pagina’s
...man's head, and cunning winks to see the knave, by his own good leave, transformed into a saint. " Doubtless, the pleasure is as great In being cheated, as to cheat." In all cases, there seems a sort of compromise, a principle of collusion between imposture and credulity.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 pagina’s
...man's head, and cunning winks to see the knave, by his own good leave, transformed into a saint. •• Doubtless, the pleasure is as great In being cheated, as to cheat." In all cases, there seems a sort of compromise, a principle of collusion between imposture and credulity.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 pagina’s
...man's head, and cunning winks to see the knave, by his own good leave, transformed into a saint. " Doubtless, the pleasure is as great In being cheated, as to cheat." In all cases, there seems a sort of compromise, a principle of collusion between imposture and credulity.... | |
 | Henry Charles William Angelo - 1828 - 532 pagina’s
...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... | |
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Who shall most deceive and cheat the other ? So, I thank my stars, we are upon a par at last, as to this point, which is a great ease to my conscience, thou must believe. And if what Hudibras tells us is true, the dear fugitive has also abundance of pleasure... 
