 | Richard Whately - 1861 - 372 pàgines
...that, in the one case, we consider what we shall gain or lose in the present world; in the other case, we consider also what we shall gain or lose in the world to come. " They who would establish a system of morality, independent of a future state, must look out for some... | |
 | John Nash Griffin - 1862 - 354 pàgines
...ii. ch. 3. one case we consider what we shall gain or lose in the present world, in the other case we consider also what we shall gain or lose in the world to come;" while again, according to him*, " virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of... | |
 | Renn Dickson Hampden - 1862 - 470 pàgines
...in the one case, we consider what we shall gain or lose in the present world — in the other case, we consider also what we shall gain or lose in the world to come ; "' — is an assertion, disproved at once by the fact, that Aristotle saw a difference between the... | |
 | Hubbard Winslow - 1862 - 502 pàgines
...shall gain or * 0 » Stewart, p. 183. lose in the present world ; and in the other case, we coneider also what we shall gain or lose in the world to come." * Morality, then, is prudence embracing our temporal welfare ; religion is prudence projected into... | |
 | Englishmen - 1863 - 912 pàgines
...philosophy to render him sordid on principle and selfish by rule. Our first remark on this system is, that it confounds virtue with prudence. This is virtually...of those who do not admit that there is a world to come ; and which disappears in practice, we apprehend, from the minds of most, if not of all, who adopt... | |
 | Hubbard Winslow - 1864 - 500 pàgines
...consider what we shall gain or » Stewart, p. 183. lose in the present world ; and in the other case, we consider also what we shall gain or lose in the world to come." * Morality, then, is prudence embracing our temporal welfare ; religion is prudence projected into... | |
 | William Fleming - 1867 - 450 pàgines
...the one case, we consider what we shall gain or lose, in the present world ; and in the other case, we consider also what we shall gain or lose, in the world to come ; but, in both cases, we consider solely what we shall gain or lose. In thus making the attainment... | |
 | Alfred Barratt - 1869 - 280 pàgines
...that in the one case we consider what we shall gain or lose in the present world, in the other case we consider also what we shall gain or lose in the world to come.' And as the result of a motive is in no way dependent on its external source, so neither is it influenced... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1869 - 526 pàgines
...that in the one case we consider what we shall gain or lose in the present world ; in the other case, we consider also what we shall gain or lose in the world to come.' — Paley's Moral Philoaophy , ii. H. 2 ' Hence we may see the weakness and mistake of those falsely... | |
 | William Fleming - 1870 - 458 pàgines
...the one case, we consider what we shall gain or lose, in the present world ; and in the other case, we consider also what we shall gain or lose, in the world to come ; but, in both cases, we consider solely what we shall gain or lose. In thus making the attainment... | |
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The difference, and the only difference, is this; that, in the one case we consider what we shall gain or lose in the present world ; in the other case, we consider also what we shall gain or lose in the world to come. 
