 | William Paley - 1838 - 976 頁
...Secondly, that 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 the take of everlasting happiness *." According to which definition, " the good of mankind" is the subject... | |
 | Reclaimed family - 1838 - 238 頁
...any person be called honest who is not virtuous." "What is virtue?" asked Ann. "Virtue consists in doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and was divided by moralists into benevolence, prudence, temperance, and fortitude. These are called the... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - 586 頁
...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... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1839 - 1018 頁
...air, down comes Paley at once with the force of Corporal Trim's hat " plump upon the ground :" — " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Let this definition be a proposition or bone of contention, if you will ; it is a bone on which there... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1840 - 616 頁
...on the Human Understanding," hook iv. chap. 3. illustration of the debasing vulgarity of his code. " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." So that any act of good to man in obedience to God, if it arise from any motive but a desire of the... | |
 | Robert Mudie - 1840 - 352 頁
...the foundations of all his theories. Virtue, according to Paley, consists in III. AA 266 ERROR OF " doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and FOR THE SAKE OF EVERLASTING HAPPINESS." This passage is so very important, — as embodying the essence of the theory in very few words, that... | |
 | George Combe - 1840 - 484 頁
...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 endeavors to show that sympathy is the source of moral approbation. Dr. Reid, Mr. Stewart,... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - 1840 - 544 頁
...different kind, and cannot be rendered thus positive. Dr. Paley asserts, that " virtue is the doing good, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Now, if he could have proved this, by a train of reasoning, founded upon a self-evident proposition,... | |
 | 1841 - 632 頁
...dictates of a moral sense. Dr. Paley does not admit such a faculty, but declares virtue to consist 1 in doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.' Dr. Adam Smith endeavours to show that sympathy is the source of moral approbation. Dr. Reid, Mr. Stewart,... | |
 | 1841 - 608 頁
...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 show that sympathy is the source of moral approbation. Dr. Reid, Mr. Stewart,... | |
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the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
