...; and partly from an apprehension that this inward sense shall, one time or other, be seconded by a higher judgment, upon which our whole being depends....will be : why then should we desire to be deceived ij Butler. CCCLXXVII. Nullius Addidus. It is a good rule to examine well before we addict ourselves...

...studying. Bishop Butler's remark, which Matthew Arnold is so fond of reiterating more suo, was, " Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be. Why then should we care to be deceived?" Now, it is decidedly "too late a week" to change the Quebec Act and its consequences....

...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 ; why, then, should we desire to be deceived?" Applying this wise sentence to your own case, I [57] would observe that no late regrets on your part...

...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 be what they will be. Why, then, should we wish to be deceived ? " The necessary consequences of the measures which Mr. Balfour appears to have...

...meaning but ignorant minds. The pith of the matter is expressed in Bishop Butler's apothegm. "Things ouse deceive ourselves." and the superintendent may justly require his teachers to be pretty sure that they...

...and then to come back after some time and resume his career in France, would not jar. No. ' Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be.' And the accounts in the Gospels of the Holy Child's incarnation and infancy, and very many things in...

...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...will be; why, then, should we desire to be deceived?" In that uncompromising sentence of Bishop Butler's is surely the right and salutary maxim for both...

...consequently we do well to put a restraining hand on extreme or alarmist statements. None the less " things and actions are what they are and the consequences of them will be what they will •3 be ; why then should we desire to be deceived ? M1 There is a deep inner life and energy for good...

...disapproval. Among the many wise savings 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...

...fires of the Calvinist hell purge away its stain, In the portentous words of Bishop Butler, " things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be." It seems more difficult in these days than in times past for men to discover the eternal purposes of...