 | 1916 - 688 lehte
...come 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... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1850 - 682 lehte
...manner one and the same, 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...will be : why, then, should we desire to be deceived ? As we are reasonable creatures, and have any regard to ourselves, we ought to lay these things plainly... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1850 - 342 lehte
...terrors to serious persons, the most free from enthusiasm, and of the greatest strength of mind ; but it is fit things be stated and considered as they really are. And there is in the present age a certain fearlessness with regard to what may be hereafter under the... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1851 - 338 lehte
...terrors to serious persons, the most free from enthusiasm, and of the greatest strength of mind ; but it is fit things be stated and considered as they really are. And there is, in the present age, a certain fearlessness with regard to what may be hereafter under... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1862 - 574 lehte
...manner one and the same, 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...will be : why then should we desire to be deceived ? As we are reasonable creatures and have any regard to ourselves, we ought to lay these things plainly... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1867 - 350 lehte
...terrors to serious persons, the most free from enthusiasm and of the greatest strength of mind; but it is fit things be stated and considered as they really are. And there is, in the present age, a certain fearlessness with regard to what may be hereafter under... | |
 | 1876 - 802 lehte
...which a 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...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 lehte
...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 of them will...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 lehte
...Gennany, and then to come back after some time and resume his career in France, would not jar. No. " Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be." And the accounts in the Gospels of the Holy Child's incarnation and infancy, and very many things in... | |
 | John CULLEN (Vicar of Radcliffe-on-Trent.) - 1876 - 278 lehte
...terrors to serious persons, the most free from enthusiasm and of the greatest strength of mind, but it is fit things be stated and considered as they really are. And there is, in the present age, a certain fearlessness, with regard to what may be hereafter under... | |
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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? 
