 | Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie - 1844 - 118 Seiten
...truth of his sentiment : do you not remember, dearest Rachel, that he says, " I can teach twenty men what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty, to follow mine own teaching ? ' Look, what a good teacher and preacher you used to find in me ; how I used to hold forth upon the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 Seiten
...Steals ere we can effect them. 280. They lose the world that do buy it with much care. 281. I can easier teach twenty what were Good to be done, than be one of the twenty to Follow mine own teaching. 282. All things that are, Are with more spirit chased than enjoyed. 283. Love is blind, and lovers... | |
 | East India college - 1845 - 620 Seiten
...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." Thus would we cry, out upon you ! — race of impracticables, — thus do we point the finger of ridicule... | |
 | 1915 - 736 Seiten
...logically to demand of the critic of the present age. But, as is all too frequently the case, "I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching." And so we are apt to become impatient with writers who are continually emphasizing faults in our current... | |
 | Harold C. Goddard - 2009 - 410 Seiten
...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 twenty to follow mine own teaching. If that is not a specific preparation for the speech on mercy and what follows it, what in the name... | |
 | 1918 - 952 Seiten
...were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. I can easier tell twenty what were good to be done than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching." The truth is, life, as an affair of practice, is rather an art than a science, and in all art the first... | |
 | 1861 - 780 Seiten
...value the difficulties of such a situation, and I confess that, in Shakespeare's words, " I had rather teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching.'' But we can hardly over-estimate the influence which an able commander-in-chief might... | |
 | Paul R. Krugman - 1986 - 330 Seiten
...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. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, quoted by Wolf (1979, p. 135). Many changes, environmental... | |
 | Bettina L. Knapp - 2010 - 258 Seiten
...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...twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree: such a hare is madness the youth,... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1987 - 640 Seiten
...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...twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps over a cold decree." William Shakespear, The Merchant... | |
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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... 
