 | William Paley - 1824 - 472 páginas
...has no advantage over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. CHAP. VII. Virtue. VIRTUE is "the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." According to which definition, " the good of mankind" is the subject ; the " will of God," the rule... | |
 | 1824 - 288 páginas
...even with respect to this world's happiness. CHAPTER VII. VIRTUE. Q. WHAT is Virtue ? A. The doing of good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. According to this definition, " the good of mankind" is the subject; " the will of God" the rule; and... | |
 | William Paley - 1825 - 502 páginas
...has no advantage over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. CHAP. VII. VIRTUE. VIRTUE is " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.''' <• According to which definition, " the good of mankind," is the subject; the " will of God," the... | |
 | 1825 - 504 páginas
...Aristippus, who resolve it into the pursuit of selfish gratification ; Paley, who defines it to be ' the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness ;' and Dr Smith, who allows it no other standard, than our sympathy with the feelings of others, are... | |
 | A. Norman - 1825 - 348 páginas
...to be a part of moral philosophy*; but again, with much indistinctness of thought, defines virtue, " The doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness."t Two apostles use the word ǤST>J, virtus, but not in the sense of the above definition.... | |
 | William Paley, Edmund Paley - 1825 - 578 páginas
...no advantage over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. CHAPTER VII. VIRTUE. VIRTUE is " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for tfie sake of everlasting happiness." According to which definition, " the good of mankind" is the subject;... | |
 | William Paley, Edmund Paley - 1825 - 452 páginas
...sure to err. *I mid in a Sermon, dated Appleby, 1779, this sentence: " Now I describe virtue to be the doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, for the sake of everlasting happiness." The text is, " Add to your faith virtue." ED. t relieving beggars... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - 522 páginas
...ethics, however false and dangerous I consider his leading doctrines to be. Virtue, he defines to be, " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and lor the sake of everlasting happiness."* The last part of the definition is the most important part... | |
 | Thomas Brown, Levi Hedge - 1827 - 400 páginas
...ethics, however false and dangerous I consider his leading doctrines to be. Virtue, he defines to be, " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." * The last part of the definition is the most important part of the whole ; for, the knowledge of this... | |
 | William Paley - 1828 - 610 páginas
...no adtantage over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. CHAPTER VII. Virtue. VIRTUE is " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." According to which definition, " the good of mankind" is the subject; the " will of God," the rule;... | |
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the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
