 ... in a very languid way, what it is that will relieve them most effectually or, in other words, that the shoe does not really pinch them so hard as we think it does. For when it really pinches, as when a man is being flogged, he will seek relief by...  The guards - Strona 83autor: Guards - 1827Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | 1841 - Liczba stron: 956
...waggons with eight horses convey a Cooly's load, the observer of this, " et hoc genus omne" reflects " Surely the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat." Mr. Liddell is under a mistake in asserting imprimis " that not a spar or even an artificer was procurable."... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1834 - Liczba stron: 128
...and eommon sense are very slow travellers. History will bear out the sarcastic remark of Hudihras: " Surely the pleasure is as great, " Of being cheated as to cheat." The frauds and fallacies of our restrictive monopolies, the remnants of the old mimnercial system,... | |
 | Robert Folkestone Williams - 1835 - Liczba stron: 254
...ingredient in this moral world of yours," he replied ; " or that, to use a couplet by a defunct scribbler, ' Surely the pleasure is as great • Of being cheated as to cheat.' As an instance I name yourself. You have received a letter this morning full of sweet compliments and... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1839 - Liczba stron: 708
...relieving real distress ; of course it is zealously calumniated by the impostors and their dupes, for Surely the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat. Were we to find any fault with the institution, it would be its voluntary character ; it is an association... | |
 | 1849 - Liczba stron: 466
...the truth it sees and hears, But swallows nonsense and a lie With greediness and gluttony." * * * * " Surely the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat." The truth is no man is proof against deception ; and when the body is weakened by disease, real or... | |
 | 1849 - Liczba stron: 510
...To all the truth it sees and hears, But swallows nonsence and a lie With greediness and gluttony." " Surely the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat." The truth is, no man is proof against deception; and when the body is weakened by disease, real or... | |
 | Edmund Frederick J. Carrington - 1862 - Liczba stron: 244
...Propounders of Spiritual novelties, who take advantage of the fatuity Of a Delusion-seeking world— " Surely the pleasure is as great, Of being cheated as to cheat." — Hudibrcu. " For every knave is born a fooL"— Beb. adage. (31.) An illustration of the Spirit... | |
 | John Frederick Boyes - 1865 - Liczba stron: 280
...admiration of a vulgar reader, who marks nothing but what confirms his own preconceived notions. I Surely, the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat. — Hudibras. INTEODUCE this as an instance of the wornout quotation. Dr. Johnson says (in " The Idler"),... | |
 | Robert Cooper (Spiritualist.) - 1867 - Liczba stron: 234
...Cooper's spiritual narratives, they will only illustrate the truth of what Butler says In Hudibras, that " Surely the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat.'' I,am, sir, Your most obedient servant, WILLIAM NOBLE. Forest Lodge, Maresfield. 17th, March, 1864.... | |
 | John Burley Waring - 1873 - Liczba stron: 466
...there asking, and the knaves were there ready to give, to any amount, and to their own great profit. " Surely the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat," observes quick-witted Butler. But there ought to be no pleasure in either case. And to our mind almost... | |
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