 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
 | Arnold Bennett - 1911 - 126 pages
...discover. What 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 de\ ceiveourselves " — that remorse for wickedness is a useful and praiseworthy exercise?... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1911 - 502 pages
...altogether a gratifying one. But I am much attached to that saying of Bishop Butler, "Things are as they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we deceive ourselves?" I see no occasion in these matters to be either optimist or pessimist. Much better... | |
 | 1925 - 986 pages
...rightly fear the truth. Bishop Butler told us from his eighteenth century wisdom : 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 ? 1 The generation which came through the war and the younger generation which... | |
 | 1925 - 966 pages
...rightly fear the truth. Bishop Butler told us from his eighteenth century wisdom : 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 ? 1 The generation which came through the war and the younger generation which... | |
 | 1886 - 978 pages
...now a heightened, an almost awful significance. ' Things are what they 1886 THE NADIR OF LIBERALISM. are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we desire to be deceived ?' The laws which govern the course of human affairs, which make this thing salutary... | |
 | 1881 - 972 pages
...to the search for truth. ' Things are what they are,' said Bishop Butler, ' and their consequences will be what they will be ; why, then, should we wish to be deceived ? ' Els oîWoy âpicrros—the one best of omens is that we ourselves be brave and true. ' Light !... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1973 - 508 pages
...expression of Bishop Butler's that Arnold was fond of quoting: “Things and actions are what they arc, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we desire to be deceived? “—Sermon VII, “Upon the Character of Balaam,” ¶16; Works, ed. WE Gladstone... | |
 | 1916 - 806 pages
...from ? Can the exact date of his death in 1678 be ascertained? G. FRB REFERENCE W¿..w¿riD.—” Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be ; why therefore should we wish to be deceived ? “ Can any one give me chapter and verse for this trite... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1960 - 634 pages
...have more 35 than once quoted in past times, acquires now a heightened, an almost awful significance. ‘Things are what they are, and the consequences...them will be what they will be; why then should we desire to be deceived?' The laws which govern the course of human affairs, which make this thing salutary... | |
 | 1896 - 518 pages
...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 be what they will be; why, then, should we desire to be deceived?" "For, after all, that which is true must be admitted, though it should show... | |
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