...sentences, and well pronounced. NERISSA They would be better if well followed. PORTIA 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 10 divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good...

...things seem worst that You Mustn't Quit. From Shakespeare's "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 princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to...

...and well pronounced. in NERISSA They would be better if well followed. PORTIA If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's 1.1-2. Di sole le scendono sulle tempie come Un vello d'oro che fa del suo palazzo Di Belmonte un lido...

...appear in other ways than words" (V. i. 139f.). Und zu Nerissa sagt sie: "If to do were äs easy äs to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor man's cottages princes' palaces" (I. ii. 12-14). Nur wenn man gute Vorsätze auch in praktisches Handeln...

...remains, however, a matter of debate. Chapter 14 Trade and Labor Market Reforms 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...

...society, and of flawed individuals at that. As Portia acknowledges in act 1, "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" (1.2.12-14). There is something remarkably Thatcherite in this concluding vision of individuals rather...

...to Nerissa's moralizing with the Utopian vision of a world without poverty: "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" (1.2.11-2). A similarly anti hierarchical tone seems to underwrite the very insistence, in relation...

...followed.' Portia's reply seems to be inspired by the New Testament. She 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. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to...

...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....

...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....