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...in Western and Eastern Nigeria (1969). IX THE APPLICATION OF POLITICAL ECONOMY 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. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice l Joseph Tussman once... | |
 | Cynthia Lewis - 1997 - 268 頁
...however, Portia's appreciation of human limitations is realistic beyond her years: "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" (12-14). Yet her awareness that human inadequacy requires compassion... | |
 | Theodore Ziolkowski - 2003 - 340 頁
...thankful for, she admits that they are "Good sentences, and well pronounc'd." But "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" and other words to the same effect (1.2.10-26): the definition of... | |
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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... 
