 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?  Sermons - Page 110by Joseph Butler - 1827 - 364 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Theology - 1838 - 632 pages
...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 : why then should...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 - Apologetics - 1845 - 642 pages
...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: why then should...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... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Apologetics - 1848 - 632 pages
...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: why then should...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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1916 - 690 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1883 - 934 pages
...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,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1876 - 1022 pages
...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 ? " " I express myself with caution, lest I should be mistaken to vilify reason, which is indeed the... | |
 | Literature - 1876 - 966 pages
...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 - 802 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph William Reynolds - Religion and science - 1878 - 552 pages
...worship. We take facts as we find them. Butler said, — " Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be ; why, then, should we desire to be deceived ? " The duration of life on our globe is but a single pulsation of the mighty life of the universe.... | |
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