 | 1802 - 558 páginas
...fpeculations of morality will prove but a broken reed. - . " In vol. ip 41. the author defines virtue to be the ' doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the lake of everlaiitng happinefs.' Mere implicit obedience, therefore, lo the will of God will not, according... | |
 | 1805 - 420 páginas
...in which virtue is defined, as a fundamental principle, " The doing good to mankind, in obedii ence to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." The two Systems are indeed substantially the same; and in one respect the original has I think the... | |
 | David Savile - 1807 - 426 páginas
...knowledge, power, and goodness; * who is also our Friend and Father.' * 12. DR. PALEY defines virtue, ' doing * good to mankind, in obedience to the ' will of God, and for the sake of everlast* ing happiness.' * THE good of mankind is the subject, ' the will of God is the rule, and... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 788 páginas
...distributed. 2d. Vice has no advantage over virtue with respect to this world's happiness. rirtue " Is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to " the will of God, and for the sake of evetlasting " happiness." BIe 7. It may be divided into duties towards God, towards others, and towards... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1813 - 550 páginas
...relating to it has been pretty well agreed upon, and it is generally understood to include thus much: 77ie doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. Obedience to God is the principle, the good of mankind the matter, our own happiness the end, of all... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 830 páginas
...equally distributed. 2d. Vice has no advantage over virtue with respect to this world's happiness. . " Is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to " the will of Uod, and for the take of eveilaating " happiness." BIe 7. It may be divided into duties towards God,... | |
 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - 1815 - 598 páginas
...Preliminary Dissertations, is peculiarly defective, yet at the same time redundant. " Virtue," he says, " is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. According to which definition," he continues, " the good of mankind is the subject; the will oj God,... | |
 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - 1817 - 612 páginas
...Preliminary Dissertations, is peculiarly defective, yet at the same time redundant. " Virtue," he says," is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. According to which definition," he continues, " the good of mankind is the subject; the will of God,... | |
 | John Prior Estlin - 1818 - 430 páginas
...writer on the whole, Dr. Paley. The definition which this last writer has given of virtue is this: " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience...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, and everlasting... | |
 | William Burdon - 1820 - 1026 páginas
...those who act right from any motive short of those which are termed religious. " Virtue," he says, " is the doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, for the sake of everlasting happiness." According to this definition, no man can be virtuous who disbelieves... | |
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debasing vulgarity of his code —' Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
