 | William Hogarth - 1808 - 346 pages
...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 - English fiction - 1811 - 408 pages
...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 - Acting - 1818 - 282 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1819 - 488 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 pages
...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 - Aesthetics - 1826 - 464 pages
...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 - Rationalism - 1826 - 462 pages
...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 - England - 1828 - 532 pages
...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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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. 
