 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - Readers - 1890 - 516 pages
...a good deal of selfflattery and self-delusion which is mischievous. " Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why, then, should we desire to be deceived?" In that uncompromising sentence of Bishop is Butler's is surely the right and salutary maxim for both... | |
 | James Copner - Realism - 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... | |
 | Literature - 1891 - 530 pages
...a grim and coherent setting-forth of the logical sequences of evil. " Things 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 have noted so much, it may be not a betrayal of the story, but rather an encouragement to the reader,... | |
 | Lucas Malet - 1891 - 466 pages
...» VI 440 „ VII. 444 THE WAGES OF SIN. BOOK I.— MAN AND MAID. • Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will 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... | |
 | Clement Boulton Roylance Kent - Great Britain - 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... | |
 | John M. Robertson - Humanists - 1891 - 275 pages
...has a sentence like this sentence, splendide verax, 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell Finlayson - Christian life - 1893 - 406 pages
...and speaking in the spirit of Butler's memorable words : " 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." If he argued, with a force which few men rivalled, against agnosticism and materialism, it was not... | |
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - Religion - 1895 - 352 pages
...follow as facts and reason oblige me to go. "Things are what they are," as Bishop Butler says, " and the consequences of them will be what they will be ; why, then, should we desire to be deceived ? " Let us face facts, seeking only to know what they are, and, as far as we can, what they really... | |
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - Religion - 1895 - 352 pages
...follow as facts and reason oblige me to go. " Things are what they are," as Bishop Butler says, " and the consequences of them will be what they will be ; why, then, should we desire to be deceived ? " Let us face facts, seeking only to know what they are, and, as far as we can, what they really... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1895 - 344 pages
...through ; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers. 12. Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be. Why then should we desire to be deceived ? 13. Sow love, and taste its fruitage pure, Sow peace, and reap its harvest bright ; Sow sunbeams... | |
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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? 
