 the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.  England and the English - 第 117 頁Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton 著 - 1836 - 380 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | 1824 - 288 頁
...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... | |
 | William Paley - 1825 - 502 頁
...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...God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.''' <• According to which definition, " the good of mankind," is the subject; the " will of God," the... | |
 | 1825 - 504 頁
...Aristippus, who resolve it into the pursuit of selfish gratification ; Paley, who defines it to be ' the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...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... | |
 | A. Norman - 1825 - 348 頁
...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 ǤST>J, virtus, but not in the sense of the above definition.... | |
 | William Paley, Edmund Paley - 1825 - 578 頁
...vice has no 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;... | |
 | William Paley, Edmund Paley - 1825 - 452 頁
...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... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - 522 頁
...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 will of God, and lor the sake of everlasting happiness."* The last part of the definition is the most important part... | |
 | Thomas Brown, Levi Hedge - 1827 - 400 頁
...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 will...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 頁
...vice has no adtantage over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. CHAPTER 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;... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 頁
...the strangely absurd (in every view) definition of virtue, given in Gay's Preliminary Dissertations. 'Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.' This combines the two opposite faults of being at once deficient and redundant ; nnd, what is still... | |
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