 | William Crary Brownell - 1889 - 432 sider
...own and an affront to others' intelligence. " Things are what they are," says Bishop Butler, " and the consequences of them will be what they will be. Why, then, should we desire to be deceived ? " Simply because there are other considerations more valuable in our eyes than avoiding being deceived.... | |
 | Thomas Ruggles Pynchon - 1889 - 144 sider
...applicable to the affairs of daily life. He says in one place : " Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be ; why, then, should we wish to be deceived ? " * And again, " For, after all, that which is true must be admitted, though... | |
 | 1892 - 788 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 Rome to the... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1890 - 516 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 is Butler's is surely the right and salutary maxim for both... | |
 | James Copner - 1890 - 370 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | Lucas Malet - 1891 - 466 sider
...» 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 - 1891 - 208 sider
...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 - 1891 - 275 sider
...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 - 1893 - 406 sider
...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... | |
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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? 
