 | A. Norman - 1825 - 358 páginas
...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 agervj, virtus, but not in the sense of the above definition.... | |
 | William Paley, Edmund Paley - 1825 - 452 páginas
...to err. *I find 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. f relieving beggars—attending... | |
 | William Paley - 1828 - 532 páginas
...SECONDLY, That vice has no advantage over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. CHAPTER VII. 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;... | |
 | William Paley - 1828 - 200 páginas
...virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. MORAL PHILOSOPHY. 15 .- ' CHAPTER VII. VIRTUE. VIRTUE is the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. Virtue has been variously divided by men, who have written on the subject, but the most common division... | |
 | William Paley - 1828 - 610 páginas
...the subject; the " will of God," the rule; and " everlasting happiness," the motive of human virtue. VIRTUE is " the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Virtue has been divided by some moralists into benevolence, prudence, fortitude, and temperance. Benevolence... | |
 | William Paley - 1828 - 816 páginas
...SECONDLY, That vice has no advantage over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. CHAPTER VII. VIRTUE is " the doing good to mankind, in " obedience to the will of God, and for the take of "everlasting happinea." According to which definition, " the good " of mankind" Is the subject... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 418 páginas
...the strangely absurd (in every view) definition of virtue, given in Gay's Preliminary Dissertations. 'Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.' This combines the two opposite faults of being at once deficient and redundant ; and, what is still... | |
 | Thomas Dudley Fosbroke - 1829 - 1254 páginas
...themselves ; in short, we exhort them, according to a celebrated definition of moral virtue, " to do good, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness."* * Paley, Moral Philosophy, Book i. eh. 7. 12 Now this, upon our present hypothesis, is practical preaching.... | |
 | George Combe - 1830 - 738 páginas
...but is also an adherent of the selfish system, under a modified form. He makes A-irtue consist in " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness \\." According to this doctrine, " the will of God is our rule, but private happiness our motive,"... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1829 - 778 páginas
...refers it to the principle of Sympathy. Paley, \\ ho read Edwards with care, defines Virtue to be " The Doing Good to mankind in obedience to the Will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Cumberland, in his Laws of Nature, justly regards it as consisting in the love of God, and of our fellowcreatures... | |
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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. 
