 | 1824 - 290 pages
...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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1825 - 504 pages
...modern disciples of Aristippus, who resolve it into the pursuit of selfish gratification ; Paley, who defines it to be ' the doing good to mankind, in obedience...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... | |
 | William Paley - 1825 - 502 pages
...advantage over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. CHAP. VII. VIRTUE. VIRTUE is " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.''' <• According to which definition, " the good of mankind," is the subject; the " will of God," the... | |
 | A. Norman - 1825 - 348 pages
...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 «ýST>J, virtus, but not in the sense of the above definition.... | |
 | William Paley, Edmund Paley - 1825 - 452 pages
...temptation is sure to err. *I mid 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 sake of everlasting happiness." The text is, " Add to your faith virtue." ED. t relieving beggars... | |
 | William Paley, Edmund Paley - 1825 - 578 pages
...advantage over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. CHAPTER VII. VIRTUE. VIRTUE is " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for tfie sake of everlasting happiness." According to which definition, " the good of mankind" is the subject;... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - 522 pages
...the 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,... | |
 | Thomas Brown, Levi Hedge - 1827 - 400 pages
...details of 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...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... | |
 | William Paley - 1828 - 610 pages
...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 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;... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pages
...details of 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...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... | |
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the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
