 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - Liczba stron: 364
...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 of ' God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.' There is, on the contrary, as it were, ' A smooth, short space of yellow... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - Liczba stron: 286
...advocate, Dr Paley, and we find it stated by him in few and explicit words. " Virtue,'1 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... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - Liczba stron: 520
...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... | |
 | 1837 - Liczba stron: 418
...textbook in our highest seminaries of learning, has given us this definition of virtue ; — " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." For the sake of evei'lasting happiness ! It is then, for the sake of... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - Liczba stron: 522
...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... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1838 - Liczba stron: 746
...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 to the will of God, and for the ' sake of everlasting happiness. According to which definition,' adds Paley, ' the good of mankind... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - Liczba stron: 586
...without 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... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - Liczba stron: 976
...prudent pursuit of pleasure, and a wise regard to selfinterest. Paley's definition is, that it is ' doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." This final definition uems to comprehend all the preceding; for if... | |
 | Reclaimed family - 1838 - Liczba stron: 238
...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 - Liczba stron: 1018
...state my objections to it as distinctly as I may be able. " Virtue," says this celebrated writer, " is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." "According to this definition," he adds, " the good of mankind is the... | |
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the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
