 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1838 - 632 σελίδες
...and makes no alteration at all in the nature of our case. Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be...to lay these things plainly and honestly before our mind/and upon this, act as you please, as you think most fit ; make that choice, and prefer that course... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1845 - 642 σελίδες
...and makes no alteration at all in the nature of our case. Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be:...which you can justify to yourselves, and which sits more easy upon your own mind. It will immediately appear, that vice cannot be the happiness, but must... | |
 | William Andrus Alcott - 1847 - 510 σελίδες
...done, and there's an end of it. As a great prelate unforgettably said, "Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be. Why, then, attempt to deceive ourselves " — that remorse for wickedness is a useful and praiseworthy exercise?... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1848 - 632 σελίδες
...and makes no alteration at all in the nature of our case. Things and actions arc what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be:...which you can justify to yourselves, and which sits more easy upon your own mind. It will immediately appear, that vice cannot be the happiness, but must... | |
 | 1916 - 688 σελίδες
...Analogy ' or elsewhere. H. BIRCH SHAHPE. Conservative Club. [" Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be ; why then should we desire to be deceived? "— Bp. Butler, Sermon VII., ' On the Character of Balaam,' last paragraph.] W. ROBINSON, LL.D., FSA,... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1856 - 584 σελίδες
...our case. Things and actions are what the? are, and the consequences of them will be what they *i" be : why then should we desire to be deceived ? As we are " [' Analogy,' pt. i. chap. iii. p. 61.] reasonable creatures, and have any regard to ourselves, we... | |
 | 1883 - 934 σελίδες
...candour. " It is fit things be stated and considered as they really are." " Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be ; why, then, should we desire to be deceived ?" Now what is the way in which the objections to the Christian * In a letter to the St. Jama's Gazette,... | |
 | 1876 - 802 σελίδες
...lias a sentence like this sentence, splend-ide vemx, of Butler's : " Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be ; why, then, should we desire to be deceived ? " To take in such a sentence as that is an education in moral and intellectual veracity. And after... | |
 | 1876 - 966 σελίδες
...reality of things and of the madness of self-deception : " Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be ; why then should we desire to be deceived ? " — such a man, even if he was somewhat despotically imposed upon our youth, may yet well challenge... | |
 | 1876 - 1022 σελίδες
...reality of things and of the madness of self-deception : " Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be ; why then should we desire to be deceived ? " — such a man, even if he was somewhat despotically imposed upon our youth, may yet well challenge... | |
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Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived? 
