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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 Mid-eighteenth Century - Page 103
by John Hepburn Millar - 1902 - 387 pages
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The Works of Joseph Butler ...: To which is Prefixed a Life of the ..., Volume 2

Joseph Butler - 1813 - 790 pages
...equivocations, this is in a 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...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...
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Sermons

Joseph Butler - 1827 - 378 pages
...alteration at all in the nature of our case. Things and actions are what they are, and the conse10 quences of them will be what they 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...
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The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Butler: To which is ...

Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1838 - 630 pages
...equivocations, this is in a 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...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...
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The whole works of Joseph Butler

Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1838 - 616 pages
...and makes no alteration at all in the nature of our case. Things and actions are what they are, ana the consequences of them will be what they 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...
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The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Butler, D.C.L., Late ...

Joseph Butler, Samuel Halifax - 1844 - 406 pages
...equivocations, this is in a 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...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...
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The Young Woman's Guide to Excellence

William A. 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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The Works of ... Joseph Butler ... to which is Prefixed: An Account of the ...

Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1848 - 630 pages
...one and the same, and makes no alteration at all in the nature of our case. Things and actions arc what they are, and the consequences of them will be...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...
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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 Whole Works of Joseph Butler, Volumes 1-2

Joseph Butler - 1850 - 682 pages
...equivocations, this is in a 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...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...
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The sermons and remains of ... Joseph Butler, ed. by E. Steere, Issue 153

Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1862 - 578 pages
...equivocations, this is in a 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...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...
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