 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1838 - Страниц: 632
...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 - Страниц: 642
...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 - Страниц: 510
...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 - Страниц: 632
...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 - Страниц: 688
...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 - Страниц: 584
...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 - Страниц: 934
...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 - Страниц: 802
...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 - Страниц: 966
...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 - Страниц: 1022
...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? 
