 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1896 - 388 sider
...and invention, but keeps under foot fancy, imagination, and feeling. " Things are as they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be. Why then should we desire to be deceived ? " Butler never desired to be deceived, however gloomy and awful reality might be. There was little... | |
 | 1896 - 518 sider
...form or accommodate, but to state things as he finds them." "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?" "For, after all, that which is true must be admitted, though it should show us the shortness of our... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1896 - 488 sider
...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 ourselves, we ought to lay these things plainly... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1896 - 244 sider
...the key to his own intellectual position. " Things are what they are, and the consequences of themJ will be what they will be ; why, then, should} we desire to be deceived? " " In that uncompromising sentence," so runs his comment, " is surely the right and salutary maxim... | |
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1897 - 318 sider
...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... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1897 - 312 sider
...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 Borne to the... | |
 | Thomas Brackett Reed - 1900 - 470 sider
...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 Butler's is surely the right and salutary maxim for both... | |
 | Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - 1900 - 470 sider
...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 Butler's is surely the right and salutary maxim for both... | |
 | William Archibald Spooner - 1901 - 334 sider
...which we are apt to think ourselves very competent ones." " 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 de1 Analogy, nv § 24. ceived I"1 " As we cannot remove from this earth, or change our general business... | |
 | John Hepburn Millar - 1902 - 408 sider
...unwavering purpose is to get into contact with realities. " 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 ? " In that memorable sentence he strikes the keynote both of his character and of his achievement.... | |
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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? 
