 | 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... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1827 - 376 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... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1838 - 632 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Andrus 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?... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1848 - 632 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1862 - 574 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... | |
 | 1883 - 934 pages
...myself with entire candour. " It is fit things be stated and considered as they really are." " Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will...will be ; why, then, should we desire to be deceived ?" Now what is the way in which the objections to the Christian * In a letter to the St. Jama's Gazette,... | |
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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? 
