 | 1842 - 576 էջ
...definition consists of three clauses, in each of which a grave error is involved. " Virtue consists in doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." It is enough to say, that benevolence is not the whole duty of man,... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1842 - 388 էջ
...definition consists of three clauses, in each of which a grave error is involved. " Virtue consists in doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." It is enough to say, that benevolence is not the whole duty of man... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1842 - 388 էջ
...definition consists of three clauses, in each of which a grave error is involved. " Virtue consists in doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." It is enough to say, that benevo( lence is not_lhfi_ipAflZ?.d.uty.o£.ai8n... | |
 | George Ramsay - 1843 - 574 էջ
...to his account of moral obligation, and the one is as faulty as the other. " Virtue is," says he, " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. According to which definition," he continues, " the good of mankind... | |
 | 1866 - 956 էջ
...standing butt for Coleridge's shafts was Paley's well-known definition of virtue as " the doing of good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Or, as Paley has elsewhere more broadly laid down the same principle,... | |
 | 1846 - 496 էջ
...of a moral sense. Dr. Paley does not admit such a faculty, but declares virtue to consist in doing to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. Dr. Adam Smith endeavors to show that sympathy is the source of moral... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1846 - 618 էջ
...practical chapter on Happiness, and the philosophical portion of the chapter on Virtue. " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness."* It is not perhaps very important to observe, that these words, which... | |
 | George Combe - 1846 - 130 էջ
...dictates of a moral sense. Dr Paley does not admit such a faculty, but declares virtue to consist " in doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Dr Adam Smith endeavours to shew that sympathy is the source of moral... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1846 - 524 էջ
...the nineteenth century. Paley's definition of virtue is well known to every moralist. He makes it " the doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God for the sake of eternal happiness." The will of God then is here stated as the most direct rule of... | |
 | J. D. Morell - 1847 - 632 էջ
...the nineteenth century. Paley's definition of virtue is well known to every moralist. He makes it " the doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God for the sake of eternal happiness."' The will of God then is here stated as the most direct rule of... | |
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the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
