 | John Mackinnon Robertson, G. Astor Singer - 1897 - 708 pages
...revert to my friend's figure ? No, we must not be savagely contemptuous. As Butler has it, things are as they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be. Contempt is only a kind of intellectual recreation — which is certainly sometimes sanative, but not... | |
 | Thomas Brackett Reed - 1900 - 470 pages
...fine name of patriotism, a good deal of selfflattery and self-delusion which is mischievous. " Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will...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 pages
...fine name of patriotism, a good deal of selfflattery and self-delusion which is mischievous. " Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will...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... | |
 | 1901 - 712 pages
...disapproval. Among the many wise sayings of Bishop Butler none was wiser than his declaring that "things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be;" and his question, like that of Pilate, has never been answered, "Why, then, should we as rational creature's... | |
 | John Hepburn Millar - 1902 - 408 pages
...to plead a cause. But here is one whose unwavering purpose is to get into contact with realities. " Things and actions are what they are; and the consequences...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.... | |
 | 1902 - 414 pages
...to plead a cause. But here is one whose unwavering purpose is to get into contact with realities. " Things and actions are what they are; and the consequences...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.... | |
 | John Hepburn Millar - 1902 - 412 pages
...to plead a cause. But here is one whose unwavering purpose is to get into contact with realities. " Things and actions are what they are; and the consequences...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. The... | |
 | Herbert Woodfield Paul - 1902 - 208 pages
...no compliments. He offered them no congratulations. He told them the realities of things. " Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will...will be ; why then should we desire to be deceived ? " Like Pascal, he was profoundly impressed with the littleness of human nature, and the vanity of... | |
 | Lucas Malet - 1902 - 640 pages
...PUBLIC I..L1RARY 55532A A8TOR. LTNOX AND 1-1 X c* THE WAGES OF SIN BOOK I.—MAN AND MAID. 'Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will...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... | |
 | Henry Norman, Henry Chalmers Roberts - 1903 - 706 pages
...Butler's, which Matthew Arnold was never weary of quoting as a gem of superlative common sense : " Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will ; why, then, should we desire to be deceived ? " WHAT IS RAW MATERIAL? BY JOHN W. SANKEY (Joseph Sankey... | |
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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... 
