| 1825 - 504 pągines
...Aristippus, who resolve it into the pursuit of selfish gratification ; Paley, who defines it to be ' the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness ;' and Dr Smith, who allows it no other standard, than our sympathy with the feelings of others, are... | |
| A. Norman - 1825 - 348 pągines
...to be a part of moral philosophy*; but again, with much indistinctness of thought, defines virtue, " The doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness."t Two apostles use the word ǤST>J, virtus, but not in the sense of the above definition.... | |
| William Paley, Edmund Paley - 1825 - 452 pągines
...which might divert him from it. fa sot a knave a miser an humane man a pious man a slanderer. VIRTUE. " The doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God and for the end of everlasting happiness *." * anciently divided into benevolence, prudence, fortitude, and temperance,... | |
| Thomas Brown, Levi Hedge - 1827 - 400 pągines
...ethics, however false and dangerous I consider his leading doctrines to be. Virtue, he defines to be, " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...and for the sake of everlasting happiness." * The last part of the definition is the most important part of the whole ; for, the knowledge of this everlasting... | |
| William Paley - 1828 - 610 pągines
...no adtantage over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. CHAPTER VII. Virtue. VIRTUE is " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." According to which definition, " the good of mankind" is the subject; the " will of God," the rule;... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pągines
...strangely absurd (in every view) definition of virtue, given in Gay's Preliminary Dissertations. 'Virtue " [Ż ^`+ : ^ v" VF D Eb bp 0 }D x `t T _) & ;a ) ԯ m 53H d ȹ T ] id % i P This combines the two opposite faults of being at once deficient and redundant ; nnd, what is still... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1829 - 778 pągines
...Smith refers it to the principle of Sympathy. Paley, who read Edwards with care, defines Virtue to be " The Doing Good to mankind in obedience to the Will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Cumberland, in his Laws of Nature, justly regards it as consisting in the love of God, and of our fellowcreatures... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 418 pągines
...dangerous I consider his leading doctrines to be. Virtue he defines to be the doing good to mankind iu obedience to the will of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness. The last part of the definition is the most important part of the whole ; for the knowledge of this everlasting... | |
| Thomas Dudley Fosbroke - 1829 - 1254 pągines
...themselves ; in short, we exhort them, according to a celebrated definition of moral virtue, " to do good, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness."* Now this, upon our present hypothesis, is practical preaching. Will it then issue in the practice of... | |
| William Paley - 1830 - 406 pągines
...cold indifference. ' Virtue,' as Mr Paley, in the words of the bishop of Carlisle, § defines it, ' is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. The " good of mankind," therefore, is the subject, the " will of God " the rule, and " everlasting happiness"... | |
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