 | Anna Brownell Jameson - Women in literature and art - 1832
...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. 1 can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1064 pages
...sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. Par. Good sentences, and well pronounced. Ner. e would not have spoke such a word. [Exeunt ORLANDO and ADAH. Oft. Is it vrhat were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise... | |
 | William Cox - 1833
...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...a good divine that follows his own instructions." Lord Byron, when he dipped his pen in gall, and wrote his " ifnglish bards and Scotch reviewers," denounced... | |
 | William Cox - 1833
...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... | |
 | English literature - 1896
...If to do wore as easy as to know what were good to do, c/mpels had been churches, and ,>«>•>;• men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine...instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to bo done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The fcrain may devise laws for the... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Michael Henry Rankin - 1841 - 238 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 - 304 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
...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
...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
...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."... | |
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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 
