 | Nathanael Emmons - 1813 - 550 sider
...relating to it has been pretty well agreed upon, and it is generally understood to include thus much: TJie doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. Obedience to God is the principle, the good of mankind the matter, our own happiness the end, of all... | |
 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - 1815 - 598 sider
...Preliminary Dissertations, is peculiarly defective, yet at the same time redundant. " Virtue," he says, " is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. According to which definition," he continues, " the good of mankind is the subject ; the :..•// of... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1815 - 596 sider
...which is the greatest blessing that either of them can possess. The perfection of virtue consists in doing good to Mankind, in obedience to the will of God ; and what good can be greater than that of generating in a poor man's child, habits of piety and good manners... | |
 | J. W. Baker - 1817 - 262 sider
...society. 2. that vice has no advantage over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. 51. Virtue is the "doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and Tor the sake of everlasting happiness." Therefore, 52. " The good of mankind" is the subject ; "the... | |
 | John Prior Estlin - 1818 - 350 sider
...writer on the whole, Dr. Paley. The definition which this last writer has given of virtue is this : " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience...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, and everlasting... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1822 - 594 sider
...system of Paley, therefore, to which I particularly alluded, — a system which defines virtue to be " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, for the sake of everlasting happiness," and which makes, not the love of God, nor the love of mankind,... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 476 sider
...vice has no advantage over virtue, eren with respect to this world's happiness. CHAP. VII. Virtue, VIRTUE is " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlosting happiness" According to which deiinition, "the good of mankind" is the subject ; the "will... | |
 | 1823 - 880 sider
...regular superstructure of practical ethics. The philosophers of this school (D) define virtue to be " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the snke of everlasting happincsi:" So that with them " the good of mankind" is the sttbjfct, " the will... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 472 sider
...vice has no advantage over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. CHAP. VII. Virtue. VIRTUE is "the doing good to mankind, in obedience...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... | |
 | 1824 - 288 sider
...even with respect to this world's happiness. CHAPTER VII. VIRTUE. Q. WHAT is Virtue ? A. The doing of good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. According to this definition, " the good of mankind" is the subject; " the will of God" the rule; and... | |
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the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
