 | Theodore Martin - 1876 - 610 страници
...What, too, are the words that Shakspeare puts into the mouth of Portia ? (3ferch. of Venice, i. 2.) 'If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages prinres' palaces.' 1 ' And not without reason. Whatever his faults may have been, it was well known... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1878 - 524 страници
...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... | |
 | Constance E. Plumptre - 1878 - 422 страници
...and deeper do they seem to be plunged into the mire of terrible uncertainty. Shakspere has said, ' If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.' Yet the more thoughtful of us will readily admit that it is not always advisable to change a chapel... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1878 - 542 страници
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1879 - 494 страници
...is no mean happiness therefore, to be seated in the mean: superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. Por. Good sentences and...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... | |
 | Theodore Martin - 1880 - 616 страници
...What, too, are the words that Shakspeare puts into the month of Portia ? (Merch. of Venice, i. 2.) ' If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.' * ' And not without reason. Whatever his faults may have been, it was well known that he was not only... | |
 | John William Kirton - 1880 - 284 страници
...always accompanies the Iiealth of it • — so is decency of behaviour a concomitant of virtue." " If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces." 4. ARTICULATION AND EMPHASIS. — Owing to habits acquired in early youth and often to defective education,... | |
 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - 1881 - 232 страници
...the sun ; for the Lord God giveth them light : and they shall reign for ever and ever. — Bible. 4. If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to bn done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 860 страници
...be better, if well followed. Por. If to d'> were as easy as to know what were pood to do, clinpcls had been churches and poor men's cottages princes'...instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were pood to be done, than be one of tho twenty to follow miuo owu teaching. The brain may devise laws for... | |
 | Lucy Phillimore - 1881 - 426 страници
...— AN ASTRONOMICAL PKOHLEM— A SEAT IN PARLIAME.VT — MORE CITY CHURCHES — A CURIOUS CARVING. If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. — Merchant of I 'enice, act i. scene ii. CHAPTER X. CHARLES II.'s gift of Chelsea College to the... | |
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