 | Theodore Ziolkowski - 2003 - 340 ページ
...thankful for, she admits that they are "Good sentences, and well pronounc'd." But "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" and other words to the same effect (1.2.10-26): the definition of anomy. Indeed, anomy defines very... | |
 | 366 ページ
...in Western and Eastern Nigeria (1969). IX THE APPLICATION OF POLITICAL ECONOMY 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. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice l Joseph Tussman once argued that "it would be irresponsible... | |
 | Cynthia Lewis - 1997 - 268 ページ
...however, Portia's appreciation of human limitations is realistic beyond her years: "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" (12-14). Yet her awareness that human inadequacy requires compassion comes and goes. Intolerant of... | |
 | Beatrix Hesse - 1998 - 214 ページ
...deren Ausführung referiert Portia bereits bei ihrem ersten Auftreten in I.ii: "If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been...palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than to be one of the twenty to follow... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 ページ
...happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean. 10388 The Merchant of Venice If to do were as easy 10389 The Merchant of Venice There is not one among them but I dote on his very absence. 10390 The... | |
 | Robert P. George - 1998 - 302 ページ
...Studies and Professor of Philosophy University of Notre Dame South Bend, Indiana If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor meri's cottages princes' palaces. Merchant of Venice 1.2 These words make it clear that if Portia were... | |
 | John G. Koeltl - 1999 - 804 ページ
...to you: As a noted woman advocate, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, put it: "If to do were as easy to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces." It is certainly easier to discuss methods of presenting witnesses effectively than to present witnesses quietly,... | |
 | Michael C. Schoenfeldt - 1999 - 224 ページ
...the capacity of the reason to exert the requisite control over the emotions: 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 . . . The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree; such a hare... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 ページ
...and power are still yours. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 4, 17 (2nd century) 11 If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been...palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, 1, ii, 11-13 (c. 1596-8) 12 There is no... | |
 | Audrey Wood - 2001 - 438 ページ
...mergers the Company sought profit stabilization through some corporate relationship 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. (Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (1600)) In the thriving business environment of the mid-1980s... | |
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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... 
