 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 522
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 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...' 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... | |
 | George Combe - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 740
...but is also an adherent of the selfish system, under a modified form. He makes virtue consist in " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. "J According to this doctrine, "the will of God is our rule, but private happiness our motive," which... | |
 | William Paley - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 474
...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... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 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 hope of everlasting happiness.... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 746
...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...everlasting happiness. According to which definition,' adds Paley, ' the good of mankind is the subject, the will of God ' the rule, and everlasting happiness... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 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 the advocates of the other replications... | |
 | Reclaimed family - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 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... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 586
...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... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 1018
...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... | |
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the doing good to mankind, in " obedience to the will of God, and for the " sake of everlasting happiness... 
