 | William Cox - New York (N.Y.) - 1833 - 260 pages
...the fault of not being practicable. They ought to bear in mind what Portia truly and sensibly says, " If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows bis own instructions." Lord Byron, when he dipped his pen in gall, and wrote his " English bards and... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Michael Henry Rankin - 1841 - 266 pages
...of gods, And made a pish at chance and sufferance. Much ado about Nothing. Act v. Scene (. Portia. If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine Hurt follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1849 - 316 pages
...thou beholdest them, think how thou art beholden to Him who suffered thee not to be like them. 23. If to do, were as easy as to know what were good to...chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages, prince's palaces. He is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty... | |
 | John Mills - 1844 - 304 pages
...Danger is before and behind : so much the better. I love it, and 'tis never far from me." CHAPTER III. " If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to Indone, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may divine laws for the blood... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1878 - 530 pages
...many serious difficulties. To will a thing and to do it would be practically the same. Portia says, " If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces ; " but, according to the conservation of energy and correlation of forces, thought ought to be reducible... | |
 | East India college - 1845 - 620 pages
...we ask each of you, individually, to apply to his own case the words of our great dramatist, — " 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."... | |
 | 1845 - 616 pages
...practised, proceeds many a doleful epitome of domestic misery. — " If to do," says the fair Portia, " were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels...churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. "§ It was man's general want of prudence that probably drew forth the sage's reply, who being asked when... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 pages
...thou bcholdest them, think how thou art beholden to Him who suffered thee not to be like them. 23. If to do, were as easy as to know what were good to...chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages, prince's palaces. He is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...the dial-plate', so the advances we make in knowledge are only perceived by the distance gone over\ If to do were as easy as to know what were good' to...churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces\ While dangers are at a distance, and do not immediately' approach us — let us not conclude that we... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1848 - 160 pages
...and the widow weeps. If a man will be beaten with brains, he shall wear nothing handsome about him. If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...is a good divine that follows his own instructions. — O It is a wise father that knows his own child. It is a hard matter for friends to meet ; but mountains... | |
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