 | William Paley - 1830 - 430 pàgines
...no'advantage over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. CHAPTER VII. VIRTUE. VmftJE 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... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 780 pàgines
...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... | |
 | George Combe - 1830 - 732 pàgines
...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 \\." According to this doctrine, " the will of God is our rule, but private happiness our motive,"... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 792 pàgines
...the principle of Sympathy. Paley, who read Edwards with care, defines Virtue to be " The Doing Goodto 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 jfelloiccreatures;... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 784 pàgines
...Sympathy. Paley, who read Edwards with care, defmes Virtue to he " The Doing Good to mankind in ohedience to the Will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Cumherland, in his Latvs of Nature, justly regards it as consisting in the love of God, and of our... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 386 pàgines
...society ; 2. That vice has no advantage over virtue, even in this world. CHAP. VII. VIRTUE. Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. In this definition, the 'good of mankind' is the subject ; the ' will of God,' the rule; and ' everlasting... | |
 | William Paley - 1831 - 692 pàgines
...virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. CHAPTER VII. VIHTUE is " the doing good to manhind, cessary to show how well these things are wrapped up, so as to form a mass w According to which definition, " the good of mankind" is the subject; the " will of God," the rule... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1832 - 352 pàgines
...the practical chapter on Happiness, and the philosophical portion of the chapter on Virtue. " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness."* It is not perhaps very important to observe, that these words, which he offers as 4<a definition,"... | |
 | William Paley - 1832 - 532 pàgines
...vice has no advantage over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. CHAPTER VII. VIRTUE is " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake ofever1 rifting happiness." According to which definition, " the good of mankind," is the subject;... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1832 - 320 pàgines
...philosophical portion of the chapter on Virtue. "Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in tfbedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness."* It is not perhaps very important to observe, that these words, which he ofTers as "a definition," ought... | |
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the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
