 | William Paley - 1836 - 628 sider
...has no advantage over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiCHAPTER VII. Virtue. VIRTDE in "the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...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 ;... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - 522 sider
...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...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. It must... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 286 sider
...advocate, Dr Paley, and we find it stated by him in few and explicit words. " Virtue,'1 says Paley, "is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...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. It must... | |
 | 1837 - 418 sider
...been a textbook in our highest seminaries of learning, has given us this definition of virtue ; — " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." For the sake of evei'lasting happiness ! It is then, for the sake of happiness, — for its tendency... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 364 sider
...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... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - 522 sider
...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. It must... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1838 - 746 sider
...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...God, and for the ' sake of everlasting happiness. According to which definition,' adds Paley, ' the good of mankind is the subject, the will of God '... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - 976 sider
...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 - 238 sider
...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 - 586 sider
...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... | |
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the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
