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Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes - Page 199
by William Shakespeare - 1790
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Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 88 pages
...sentences , and well pronounced. Ner. They would be better, if well followed. Per. If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been...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...
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The family Shakespeare [expurgated by T. Bowdler]. in which those words are ...

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 1008 pages
...sentences, and well pronounced. Ner. They would be better, if well followed. Por. If to do were as easy y any thing divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than...
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The English fireside

John Mills - 1844 - 848 pages
...: 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 do. chapels had been...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...
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The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare,: According to the Improved ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 374 pages
...sentences, and well pronounced. Ner. They would be better, if well followed. Par. If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been...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...
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Calcutta Review

1845 - 616 pages
...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 had been...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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The Haileybury observer, Volumes 3-5

East India college - 1845 - 620 pages
...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 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."...
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Proceedings, Volume 32

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1878 - 530 pages
...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 do, chapels had been 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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British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of ..., Volume 22

1846 - 612 pages
...undertake it. To these we can only say, in the words of our universal authority, " 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." II. The second of the two works, the titles of which stand at the head of the present article, is a...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's ...

William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1847 - 536 pages
...sentences, and well pronounced. Ner. They would be better, if well followed. For. If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been...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...
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Knowles' Elocutionist: A First-class Rhetorical Reader and Recitation Book ...

James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...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 do — chapels had been...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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