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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 to be one of the... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of ... - Page 320
by William Shakespeare - 1806
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The Philosophy of Shakspere: Extracted from His Plays

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...
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The School Reader: Fourth Book. Containing Instructions in the Elementary ...

Charles Walton Sanders - 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...
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The English Fireside: A Tale of the Past, Volume 2

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...
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The Haileybury observer, Volumes 3-5

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."...
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Proceedings, Volume 32

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...
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Calcutta Review

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...
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School Reader: 4th book

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...
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Knowles' Elocutionist: A First-class Rhetorical Reader and Recitation Book ...

James Sheridan Knowles - 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...
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 726 pages
...sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. Рот. Good sentences, and well pronounced. Ner. I I i lu|iH- had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows...
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Shakespeare Proverbs: Or, The Wise Saws of Our Wisest Poet Collected Into a ...

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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