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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? "
The Contemporary Review - Page 912
1876
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The Works of Joseph Butler ...: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author ...

Joseph Butler - Sermons, English - 1813 - 790 pages
...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 be what they will be : Why then should we desire to be deceived? As we are reasonable creatures, and have any regard to...
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The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Butler: To which is ...

Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Theology - 1838 - 632 pages
...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 be what they will be : why then should we desire to be deceived ? As we are reasonable creatures, and have any regard to...
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The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Butler, D.C.L., Late ...

Joseph Butler, Samuel Halifax - Sermons, English - 1844 - 406 pages
...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 be what they will be : why then should we desire to be deceived? As we are reasonable creatures, and have any regard to...
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The Young Woman's Guide to Excellence

William Andrus Alcott - Conduct of life - 1847 - 510 pages
...discover. What 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...
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The Works of ... Joseph Butler ... to which is Prefixed: An Account of the ...

Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Apologetics - 1848 - 632 pages
...one and the same, 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: why then should we desire to be deceived? As we are reasonable creatures, and have any regard to ourselves,...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1916 - 690 pages
...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...
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The Whole Works of Joseph Butler, Volumes 1-2

Joseph Butler - Apologetics - 1850 - 682 pages
...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 be what they will be : why, then, should we desire to be deceived ? As we are reasonable creatures, and have any regard...
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The sermons and remains of ... Joseph Butler, ed. by E. Steere, Issue 153

Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1862 - 574 pages
...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 be what they will be : why then should we desire to be deceived ? As we are reasonable creatures and have any regard to...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 43

Great Britain - 1883 - 934 pages
...express 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 be what they will be ; why, then, should we desire to be deceived ?" Now what is the way in which the objections to the...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 33

1876 - 802 pages
...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 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...
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