 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1838 - 632 pages
...and partly from an apprehension, that this inward sense shall one time or another be seconded by a higher judgment, upon which our whole being depends....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... | |
 | William Andrus Alcott - 1847 - 510 pages
...one has done, one has 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?... | |
 | 1916 - 688 pages
...from Î Can the exact date of his death in 1678 be ascertained ! GFRB REFERENCE WANTED. — " Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be ; why therefore should we wish to be deceived Î " Can any one give me chapter and verse for this trite and... | |
 | 1916 - 590 pages
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 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1856 - 584 pages
...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 pages
...myself with entire candour. " It is fit things be stated and considered as they really are." " Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will...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 - 1022 pages
...earnest, filled with so awful a sense of tho reality of things and of the madness of self-deception : " Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences...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 - 966 pages
...earnest, filled with so awful a sense of the reality of things and of the madness of self-deception : " Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences...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 - 802 pages
...chief doctor and luminary lias a sentence like this sentence, splend-ide vemx, of Butler's : " Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will...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... | |
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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... 
