 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1836 - 588 pages
...act itself. In this view of the case, Paley's definition is doubly in error. " Virtue," says he, " is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." On this principle, the benevolent designs of Howard, would be declared devoid of the quality of virtue,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1836 - 906 pages
...of Virtue, alone is an unanswerable illustration of the debasing vulgarity of his cude. "Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." So that any act of good to1 man in obedience to God, if it arise from any motive but a desire of the... | |
 | 1837 - 420 pages
...textbook in our highest seminaries of learning, has given us this definition of virtue ; — " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1837 - 520 pages
...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 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.... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 282 pages
...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 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.... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - 522 pages
...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.... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1838 - 744 pages
...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 to the will...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 pages
...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... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - 586 pages
...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. 
