 | R. W. McNeel - 2005 - 157 ページ
...the same thought in The Merchant of Venice, when one of his characters says, "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." That this weakness of human nature is of long standing makes it particularly difficult to overcome.... | |
 | Dean Esslinger - 2005 - 132 ページ
...incidence and reflection. PARSING 1. Parse all the words in the following sentence: 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. PHYSIOLOGY 1. Describe the aponeurosis and state the advantages and disadvantages of its flexibility.... | |
 | Anna Murphy Jameson - 2005 - 472 ページ
...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 do, chapels had been...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.... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Louis Gates (Jr.) - 2007 - 560 ページ
...most famous heroine, Portia, speaks to Nerissa in this scene; the speech begins "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." 31 James Baldwin also admired Shakespeare's efforts "to defeat all labels and complicate all battles,"... | |
 | Derek Bok - 2006 - 430 ページ
...judgment and behave improperly. As Portia observes in The Merchant of Venice, "If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages prince's palaces. . . . I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of the... | |
 | Miriam Weinmann - 2007 - 57 ページ
...„Moralpredigt" und hält ihre eigene Moral auf witzige Art und Weise dagegen. ("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, ..." I, 2, 12- 14) Die beiden kommen auch auf die bisherigen Bewerber um ihre Hand zu sprechen. Dabei... | |
 | James R. Hartman - 2007 - 518 ページ
...nothing. Good statements and well delivered. They would be better if well followed. If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages would have been princes' palaces. It is a good clergyman that follows his own instructions. I can easier... | |
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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... 
