...note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. MEASURE FOR MEASURE. ACT I. VIRTUE GIVEN TO BE EXERTED. HEAVEN doth with us, as we with torches do; Not light them for themselves: for if our virtues * Cool. t Wild apples, •;*•; Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits...

...While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. MEASURE FOR MEASURE. * - ' ACT I. VIRTUE GIVEN TO BE EXERTED. HEAVEN doth with us, as we with torches do; Not light them for themselves: for if pur virtues * Cool. t Wild appl«s. MEASURE FOR MEASURE. 31 Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike...

...remarks make the practices of heaven in this regard seem suspiciously congruent with those of nature: Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light...alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues; nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But, like...

...nature of Nature, speaking of her in personified terms, as a cognitive, intentional, divine force: Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light...forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But like a thrifty goddess, she determines...

...315 69 The Moral Virtues [Catherine Bariuby] from The New Moral World, 14 December 1839, pp. 948-9. "Heaven doth with us as we with torches do; Not light...alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues: nor nature never tends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like...

...and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light...forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. (1.1.29-35) Living comfortably insulated in his citadel while relying upon his subordinates, the Duke...

...giver's, benefit. 1n Measure for Measure, Shakespeare has Duke Vincentio say it better than anyone else: Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light...go forth of us. 'Twere all alike As if we had them not.6 As an aside, one cannot help but be amused by the fact that the US Department of Commerce, in...

...application appears to have been noticed, though there is another echoing allusion to it in Sh. himself: "... if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not" (Measure for Measure, i.1.34-36). The phraseology in this passage echoes several passages concerning...

...system. As logical thought is built on assumptions from which consequences may be deduced or inferred ("If our virtues / Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike / As if we had them not"—1.1.34-36), so the law's language is built on supposes, on //"-clauses that suppose certain...

...and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves (i, i, 29-33) Do you agree with him? Should this apply to states and nations as well as to individuals?...