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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 Works of Joseph Butler ...: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author ... - Page 79
de Joseph Butler - 1813
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The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Butler: To which is ...

Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1838 - 632 pages
...and partly from an apprehension, that this inward sense shall one time or another be seconded by a higher judgment, upon which our whole being depends....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...
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The Young Woman's Guide to Excellence

William Andrus Alcott - 1847 - 510 pages
...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 exercise?...
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Notes and Queries

1916 - 690 pages
...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 and...
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The analogy of religion, to the constitution and course of nature: also ...

Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.), Joseph Angus - 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...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 43

1883 - 934 pages
...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...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,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 129

1876 - 966 pages
...earnest, filled with so awful a sense of the reality of things and of the madness of self-deception : " Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences...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...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 27

1876 - 1022 pages
...earnest, filled with so awful a sense of tho reality of things and of the madness of self-deception : " Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences...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...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 33

1876 - 802 pages
...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...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...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 28

1876 - 1072 pages
...with truth and fact. And if the want of conformity exists, it is sure to be one day found out. "Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be ;" and one inevitable consequence of a thing's want of conformity with truth and fact is, that sooner...
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The Christian Ambassador, Volume 15

1877 - 398 pages
...expresses this solemn candour. It puts as much of the whole man into one paragraph as could be :— Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will he: why then should we desire to be deceived. What a vivid sense of the reality of things, of the folly...
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