 | 1799 - Liczba stron: 614
...essentially consist ? remain undecided. Dr. Paley defined vinue to be, " doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." This, however, is a very defective "definition ; so also is hie definition of obligation (which Mr.... | |
 | 1799 - Liczba stron: 618
...essentially consist ? remain undecided. Dr. P^ley defined virtue to be, " doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." This, however, is a very defective definition ; so also 's his definition of obligation (which Mr.... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - Liczba stron: 624
...of sympatlig. Mr. Archdeacon PA LEY defines virtue to be, " the doin? good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." About fifty years ago, Mr. jAMtsoN, a Scotch clergyman, published a treatise to shew, that the obligation... | |
 | 1805 - Liczba stron: 420
...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... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1807 - Liczba stron: 508
...it to the principle of sympathy ; and Paley defines it to be the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. Some of these definitions are certainly objectionable. Perhaps those who place it in the love of God... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - Liczba stron: 532
...has summed up with great succinctness the opinion of his school. 'The good of mankind,' he says, ' is the subject, the will of God the rule, and everlasting happiness the motive and end of all virtue.' * We have seen that the distinctive characteristic of the inductive school... | |
 | William Paley - 1810 - Liczba stron: 498
...to the mil (jf Gorf, and for the sake of everlasting hafipinrts. The ' good of mankind,' therefore, is the subject, the ' will of God' the rule, and ' everlasting happiness' the motive of human virtue.f Mi obligation consists in being urged by a violent motive resulting from the command of another.... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1810 - Liczba stron: 498
...it to the principle of sympathy ; and Paley defines it to be the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. Some of these definitions are certainly objectionable. Perhaps those who place it in the love of God... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - Liczba stron: 540
...habitual virtue. By the definition of virtue, placed at the beginning of this chapter, it appears, that the good of mankind is the subject, the will of God the rule, and everlasting happiness the motive and end of all virtue. Yet, in fact, a man shall perform many an act of virtue, without having either... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1813 - Liczba stron: 550
...upon, and it is generally understood to include thus much: TJie 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... | |
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Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the Will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
