 Show me any other great Church of which a chief actor and luminary 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  Patriotism and Empire - Page 40by John Mackinnon Robertson - 1899 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 466 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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 200 pages
...characterised, I have said, by their great men. Show me any other great Church of which a chief doctor and luminary has a sentence like this sentence, splendide...them will be what they will be ; why, then, should we desire to be deceived ?' To take in and to digest such a sentence as that, is an education in moral... | |
 | Lucas Malet - 1903 - 638 pages
...New York City 1903 r THE WAGES OF SIN •y The Wages of Sin. BOOK I.—MAN AND MAID. •Things tit 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. ONB September day towards sunset, when the world... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 198 pages
...characterised, I have said, by their great men. Show me any other great Church of which a chief doctor and luminary has a sentence like this sentence, splendide verax, of Butler's: ' Things are what I they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be ; why, then, should we desire to... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1903 - 570 pages
...invited to return. “Things are what they are,” said Bishop Butler, “and the consequences of things will be what they will be. Why then should we wish to be deceived 1” An unnecessary question, were it not that men's power of self-deception is so extraordinarily... | |
 | 1904 - 746 pages
...more than he would obtain under a system of free importation. " But things," as Bishop Butler says, " are what they are, and the consequences of them will...will be. Why, then, should we wish to be deceived ? " The necessary consequences of the measures which Mr. Balfour appears to have in contemplation are... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell, Edith Helen Sichel - 1904 - 296 pages
...accustomed greatly to rely, and which was frequently on my lips during my loved one's prolonged illness: "Things are what they are, and the consequences of...them will be what they will be; why, then, should we desire to be deceived?" Applying this wise sentence to your own case, I [57] would observe that no... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 460 pages
...under the fine name of patriotism, a good deal of self-flattery 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... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 460 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... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1906 - 400 pages
...on that weapon which Nature has given them to fight with. This being the conclusion, namely, that " things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be," some of my readers, especially those in the New Forest, may ask, Why, then, say anything about it?... | |
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