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" If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the... "
Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors - Page 238
by John Timbs - 1829
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Shakespeares Selbstdekonstruktion

Oliver Lubrich - Deconstruction - 2001 - 214 pages
...desweiteren Octavio Paz" Analyse der .Fiesta' in: Ellaberinto de la soledad (1950), Mexico 1992, S. 54-77. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching [I.ii.15-17]. Die Parteilichkeit von Staat und Gesetz...
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...PORTIA. Good sentences, and well pronounced. NERISSA. They would be better, if well follow'd. PORTIA. BAGOT. If judgement lie in them, then so do we, Because...there. BUSHY. Thither will I with you; for little offic be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot...
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Smile Awhile

Albert Joseph Mary Shamon - Humor - 2003 - 124 pages
...hardest hit It's when things seem worst that You Mustn't Quit. From Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice": If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. In...
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Shakespeare and the Human Mystery

J. Philip Newell - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 148 pages
...in the sheer act of uttering what we believe to be true. In The Merchant of Venice Portia says, ... It is a good divine that follows his own instructions;...be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. (Merchant I 2 14-17) It is easier to teach truth than to live it, but the discipline of trying to give...
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The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare - Jews - 2003 - 156 pages
...longer. PORTIA Good sentences, and well pronounced. NERISSA They would be better if well followed. PORTIA If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good 10 divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than...
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A Serious Occupation: Literary Criticism by Victorian Women Writers

Solveig C. Robinson - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 332 pages
...profound, that they have passed into familiar and daily application with all the force of proverbs. If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching....
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Il mercante di Venezia

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2003 - 242 pages
...PORTIA Good sentences, and well pronounced. in NERISSA They would be better if well followed. PORTIA If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's 1.1-2. Di sole le scendono sulle tempie come Un vello d'oro che fa del suo palazzo Di Belmonte un lido...
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Von der Ökonomik zur politischen Ökonomie: ökonomischer Diskurs und ...

Christiane Damlos-Kinzel - Economics - 2003 - 226 pages
...appear in other ways than words" (V. i. 139f.). Und zu Nerissa sagt sie: "If to do were äs easy äs to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor man's cottages princes' palaces" (I. ii. 12-14). Nur wenn man gute Vorsätze auch in praktisches Handeln...
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Theology, Ethics and Metaphysics: Royal Asiatic Society Classics ..., Volume 2

裕之·真下 - Islam - 2003 - 576 pages
...natural knowledge. Man is not so able to imitate as to understand — to execute as to devise. — " If to do were as easy as to know what were good to be done, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces." This imperfection it...
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Great Oxford: Essays on the Life and Work of Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of ...

Richard Malim - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 380 pages
...would be better if well followed.' Portia's reply seems to be inspired by the New Testament. She says, If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood but a hot...
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