 | Joseph Butler - 1896 - 488 pàgines
...manner one and the same, 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...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... | |
 | 1896 - 518 pàgines
...A writer is "not to form or accommodate, but to state things as he finds them." "Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will...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... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1896 - 802 pàgines
...selection, judgment, and invention, but keeps under foot fancy, imagination, and feeling. " Things are as they are, and the consequences of them will be what...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... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1896 - 388 pàgines
...selection, judgment, and invention, but keeps under foot fancy, imagination, and feeling. " Things are as they are, and the consequences of them will be what...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... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1896 - 244 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1896 - 514 pàgines
...terrors to serious persons, the most free from enthusiasm, and of the greatest strength of mind ; but it is fit things be stated and considered as they really are. And there is, in the present age, a certain fearlessness, with regard to what may be hereafter under... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1896 - 510 pàgines
...terrors to serious persons, the most free from enthusiasm, and of the greatest strength of mind ; but it is fit things be stated and considered as they really are. And there is, in the present age, a certain fearlessness, with regard to what may be hereafter under... | |
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1897 - 318 pàgines
...must 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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson, G. Astor Singer - 1897 - 708 pàgines
...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... | |
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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? 
