 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?  Discourses in America - Page 2by Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1892 - 788 pages
...And it is best to tell the truth. As Butler said, " Things are what they are, and their consequences will be what they will be. Why then should we desire to be deceived ? " I believe, too, that the Italian Government dare not, at present, propose to give up Rome to the... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1890 - 516 pages
...from patriots and patriotism of this sort. Short of such, there is, undoubtedly, sheltering itself io under the fine name of patriotism, a good deal of...deceived?" In that uncompromising sentence of Bishop is Butler's is surely the right and salutary maxim for both individuals and nations. Yet there is an... | |
 | John Rickaby - 1890 - 424 pages
...fact, that a most powerful discourse might be delivered to enforce the text from Bishop Butler : " Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be." How many lives are passed in ignoring this truth ! case there is a mean between mere is and is not,... | |
 | James Copner - 1890 - 370 pages
...Worthies" " Bunyan : A Memoir" "Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them \vill be what they will be: why, then, should we desire to be deceived?" — BISHOP BUTLHR. WILLIAMS AND NORGATE : J4, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON ; AND 20, SOUTH... | |
 | 1891 - 530 pages
...romance for an idle hour, but a grim and coherent setting-forth of the logical sequences of evil. " Things are what they are, and the consequences of...will be ; why then should we desire to be deceived?" As we have noted so much, it may be not a betrayal of the story, but rather an encouragement to the... | |
 | Lucas Malet - 1891 - 466 pages
...„ HI 410 ,, IV 415 ,,V. 426 » VI 440 „ VII. 444 THE WAGES OF SIN. BOOK I.— MAN AND MAID. • Things are what they are, and the consequences of...be; why then should we desire to be deceived.'— BISHOP BUTLER. CHAPTER I. ONE September day towards sunset, when the world was younger by some fourteen... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1891 - 322 pages
...a chief actor and luminary has a sentence like this sentence, splendide rerax, of Butler's : — ' Things are what they are, and the consequences of...them will be what they will be ; why then should we wish to be deceived? ' To take in and digest such a sentence as that is an education in moral and intellectual... | |
 | Clement Boulton Roylance Kent - 1891 - 208 pages
...blinding one's eyes to the fact. " Things," said Bishop Butler, " are what they are, and consequences will be what they will be. Why, then, should we desire to be deceived ? " Unless the union is an agreeable one to all parties, or unless secession is allowed, a conflict... | |
 | Thomas Campbell Finlayson - 1893 - 406 pages
...seemed to be thinking and speaking in the spirit of Butler's memorable words : " Things and actions are what they are ; and the consequences of them will...will be ; why then should we desire to be deceived." If he argued, with a force which few men rivalled, against agnosticism and materialism, it was not... | |
 | John Clifford - 1893 - 328 pages
...veiled beauty to be seen and felt. The far-reaching saying of Bishop Butler is worthy of memory, " Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why should we desire to be deceived?" Why, indeed ! Why do we not accept our limitations frankly ; confess... | |
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