 | 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... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1829 - 778 頁
...Smith refers it to the principle of Sympathy. Paley, who read Edwards with care, defines Virtue to be " The Doing Good to mankind in obedience to the Will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Cumberland, in his Laws of Nature, justly regards it as consisting in the love of God, and of our fellowcreatures... | |
 | Thomas Dudley Fosbroke - 1829 - 1254 頁
...themselves ; in short, we exhort them, according to a celebrated definition of moral virtue, " to do good, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness."* Now this, upon our present hypothesis, is practical preaching. Will it then issue in the practice of... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 418 頁
...dangerous I consider his leading doctrines to be. Virtue he defines to be the doing good to mankind iu 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 - 1830 - 406 頁
...cold indifference. ' Virtue,' as Mr Paley, in the words of the bishop of Carlisle, § defines it, ' is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. The " good of mankind," therefore, is the subject, the " will of God " the rule, and " everlasting... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 780 頁
...Smith refers it to the principle of Sympathy. Paley, who read Edwards with care, defines Virtue to be " The Doing Good to mankind in obedience to the Will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Cumberland, in his Laws of Nature, justly regards it as consisting in the love of God, and of our fellowcreatures... | |
 | George Combe - 1830 - 732 頁
...but is also an adherent of the selfish system, under a modified form. He makes virtue consist in " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness \\." According to this doctrine, " the will of God is our rule, but private happiness our motive,"... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 792 頁
...the principle of Sympathy. Paley, who read Edwards with care, defines Virtue to be " The Doing Goodto mankind in obedience to the Will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness" Cumberland, in his Laws of Nature, justly regards it as consisting in the love of God, and of our jfelloiccreatures;... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 784 頁
...Sympathy. Paley, who read Edwards with care, defmes Virtue to he " The Doing Good to mankind in ohedience to the Will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Cumherland, in his Latvs of Nature, justly regards it as consisting in the love of God, and of our... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 386 頁
...distributed in civil society ; 2. That vice has no advantage over virtue, even in this world. CHAP. VII. VIRTUE. Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. In this definition, the 'good of mankind' is the subject ; the ' will of God,' the rule; and ' everlasting... | |
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the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
