 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1891 - 580 pages
...theological hell.' But he has not yet reckoned with the grave dictum of the author of the ' Analogy,' that ' things are what they are, and their consequences will be what they will he.' Suppose evil should bring forth evil, as it has been known to do ? Or that sin when it has conceived,... | |
 | 1904 - 926 pages
...not what, in the air that betokened change and shifting: and though his personal sympathies were with the old order, he desired to facilitate the transition...Concordat, to take M. Faguet's definition, is "un tralte entre deux gouvernements done l'un a des sujets sur le territolre de l'autre; un partage d'autorite... | |
 | John Richardson Illingworth - Christian life - 1881 - 232 pages
...the no less important category of " identity " or " being," the fact that, in Butler's language, " Things are what they are, and their consequences will be what they will be." In other words, because we see that all things are related, we have come to think that they are only... | |
 | England - 1884 - 852 pages
...nothing to do with the matter. " The nature of things will not be changed by your or my fond wishes." " Things are what they are, and their consequences will be what they will be. Why, then, should we desire to be deceived ? " SAVILE. That is exactly what I do not desire, nor you... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - Philosophy and religion - 1884 - 414 pages
...nothing to do with the matter. " The nature of things will not be changed by your or my fond wishes.'' " Things are what they are, and their consequences will be what they will be. Why, then, should we desire to be deceived ? " PYTHIAS. That is exactly what I do not desire, nor you... | |
 | Samuel Cox - Bible - 1885 - 578 pages
...our unbelief cannot change, much less abolish, them. In Bishop Butler's simple but weighty phrase, " Things are what they are, and their consequences will be what they will be." The truth of facts docs not depend on our faith in them. The law of gravitation was a law before Newton... | |
 | 1886 - 522 pages
...such beliefs ; but I am far from certain that the metaphysical law of Nemesis, the doctrine that " things are what they are, and their consequences will be what they will be," does not warrant our forefathers' conviction of the penalties which followed on possessing oneself,... | |
 | 1892 - 788 pages
...of the most trustworthy information I can get. 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,... | |
 | Zhuangzi - Ethics - 1889 - 512 pages
...last few sentences are repeated in ch. xxvii. ad init. " We can never know anything but phenomena. Things are what they are, and their consequences will be what they will be."— JS Mill. " Therefore it is that, viewed from the standpoint of TAO, a beam and a pillar are identical.... | |
 | Scotland - 1890 - 492 pages
...the basis of a common Presbyterianism, and ready to make extensive sacrifices for the purpose. But " things are what they are, and their consequences will be what they will be, and it is of no profit to be deceived." And these are really questions which lie at the root of the... | |
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Things are what they are, and their consequences will be what they will be; why then should we desire to be deceived? 
