...natural knowledge. Man is not so able to imitate as to understand — to execute as to devise. — " If to do were as easy as to know what were good to be done, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces." This imperfection it...

...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...

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...would be better if well 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...twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. Her lines owe something to Romans...

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...individuals rather than 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...churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces" (1.2.12-14). There is something remarkably Thatcherite in this concluding vision of individuals rather...

...the coefficient /3 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...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...