 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...  To-day - Page 102edited by - 1890Full view - About this book
 | Amusements - 1847 - 508 pages
...required is 28. LEGERDEMAIN. -' 'I.""'..''.'''". •",',",'' '•'" '..; ,.. THE BALANCED EGO. PAGE 319 Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated...sleight, And still the less they understand, The more they admire his sleight of hand. HUDIBKAS. As the multifarious performances of the " Nimble jugglers,... | |
 | Games - 1848 - 486 pages
...shall be equal to that number. The number required is 28. J LEGERDEMAIN. IflK BALANCED EGO. I'AIIK 319 Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated...juggler's sleight, And still the less they understand, Tile more they admire his sleight of hand. HODIBKAB. As the multifarious performances of the " Nimble... | |
 | George Musgrave Musgrave - Paris (France) - 1848 - 314 pages
...recurrence. " For the nonce," I should have been better pleased if, on the Hudibrastic principle, that, — " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat !" these hymning veiled ones had retired — cross, book, and wax-candle, flag, feather and fire —... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...II. canto three — Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat ; As lookers on 1 understuud, The more they admire his sleight-of-hand. Or where the knight remarks, respecting the importance... | |
 | 1849 - 770 pages
...is esteemed as a clever device of those who think, with Cesar, that mankind are governed by words. " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat." But, like other pleasures, this may surfeit and pall. At any rate, it is essential to the enjoyment... | |
 | Children's literature - 1850 - 484 pages
...28. LEGERDEMAIN. THE BALANCED EQO. PAGE 319, Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated us to cheat ; As lookers-on feel most delight. That least...sleight, And still the less they understand, The more they admire his sleight of hand. liUDIBRAS. As the multifarious performances of the " Nimble jugglers,... | |
 | William Furniss - Egypt - 1850 - 498 pages
...consequence whether they were antiques or not ; and independent of the truth of the lines which say — '' Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat ;" we are fully convinced that disbelief creates suspicion, suspicion doubt, doubt makes skeptics,... | |
 | George Walker - Chess - 1850 - 406 pages
...latter fully capable of sounding their own trumpets. GW Stock Exchange., 1850. THE CHESS AUTOMATON. " Doubtless, the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat." — BUTLER. MAN may be fairly styled an animal of the class " gullible." From the hour of his birth... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1852 - 776 pages
...sterling, diverted from the legitimate current of honest, scientific labour ? Oh, says the same worthy, Doubtless the pleasure is as great, Of being cheated as to cheat. There are plenty of them deriving a large income from the residuary practice, with which we do not... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...blest With some new joy, cuts off what we possest. Dry den . Doubtless the pleasure is as great, In being cheated, as to cheat, As lookers-on feel most delight, That least perceive the juggler's sleight; And still the less they understand, The more th' admire the sleight of hand.... | |
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