 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - 522 str.
...advocate, Dr. Paley, and we find it stated by him in few and explicit words. " Virtue," says Paley, " is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...will of God and FOR THE SAKE of everlasting happiness !" The motive then from which all duty or virtue must proceed is the hope of everlasting happiness.... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 364 str.
...future is all hope : to the former, all despair. Paley defines very erroneously, when he calls virtue the doing good to mankind, ' in obedience to the will...' God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.' There is, on the contrary, as it were, ' A smooth, short space of yellow sand, Between it and the greener... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - 522 str.
...Paley, and we find it stated by him in few and explicit words. " Virtue," says Paley, " is the doinggood to mankind, in obedience to the will of God and FOR THE SAKE of everlasting happiness .'" The motive then from which all duty or virtue must proceed is the hope of everlasting happiness.... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1838 - 746 str.
...the criterion of virtue, while he rejects that writer's theory of obligation. Paley's definition of virtue is 'the doing 'good to mankind, in obedience...God, and for the ' sake of everlasting happiness. According to which definition,' adds Paley, ' the good of mankind is the subject, the will of God '... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - 976 str.
...Secondly, that vice has 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 the take of everlasting happiness *." According to which definition, " the good of mankind" is the subject... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - 586 str.
...reluctance in any • 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 take of everlasting happiness." The text is, " Add to your faith virtue."— ED. as. THE MORAL... | |
 | Reclaimed family - 1838 - 238 str.
...any person be called honest who is not virtuous." "What is virtue?" asked Ann. "Virtue consists in doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and was divided by moralists into benevolence, prudence, temperance, and fortitude. These are called the... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1839 - 1018 str.
...air, down comes Paley at once with the force of Corporal Trim's hat " plump upon the ground :" — " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Let this definition be a proposition or bone of contention, if you will ; it is a bone on which there... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1840 - 616 str.
...on the Human Understanding," hook iv. chap. 3. illustration of the debasing vulgarity of his code. " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." So that any act of good to man in obedience to God, if it arise from any motive but a desire of the... | |
 | George Combe - 1840 - 484 str.
...dictates of a moral sense. Dr. Paley does not admit such a faculty, but declares virtue to consist " in doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Dr. Adam Smith endeavors to show that sympathy is the source of moral approbation. Dr. Reid, Mr. Stewart,... | |
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the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
