 | 1755 - 768 ページ
...fpeculationti of morality witt prove but a broken reed. la yoLi. p. 41. the author defines virtue to be the M doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the fake of cver..-.fiing happinefs." Mere implicit obedience, therefore, to the will of God will not, according... | |
 | William King - 1758 - 296 ページ
...campleat Definition of Virtue, or Morality, fhould take in all theie Particulars, and can be only this : The doing Good to Mankind, in Obedience to the Will of God, and for the Sake of everlafting Happinefs. EL THE Nature and Obligations of MAN, As a fenfible and rational BEING.... | |
 | William Paley - 1788 - 584 ページ
...advantage over virtue, even with refpect to this world's happirwfs. CHAP. CHAP. VII. VIRTUE. VIRTUE is, " the doing good to mankind, in " obedience to the will of God, and for the " fake of everlajling happinefs." According to which definition, " the good of " mankind" is the fubjecl, the... | |
 | William Paley - 1793 - 430 ページ
...to this world's happinefs. CHAP. t' CHAP. VII. VIRTUE. VIRTUE is, " the doing good to mankind \ tl in obedience to the will of God, and for the fake of everlafting happinefs" According to which definition, " the good of M mankind" is the fujbecT:, the " will of God"... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 424 ページ
...fufllcicnt to bear a regular fupcrflruftureof praftical tthics. The philofophers of this fchool (p) define virtue to be " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the fake of everlailing hapj)iuefs:" So that with them "the good of mankind" is thcfufjefí, " the will of God"... | |
 | 1799 - 614 ページ
...virtue ? — wherein does it essentially consist ? remain undecided. Dr. Paley defined vinue to be, " doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." This, however, is a very defective "definition ; so also is hie definition... | |
 | 1799 - 618 ページ
...virtue ? — wherein does it essentially consist ? remain undecided. Dr. P^ley defined virtue to be, " doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." This, however, is a very defective definition ; so also 's his definition... | |
 | Thomas Belsham - 1801 - 578 ページ
...the reft, and is therefore our primary purfuit and ultimate end*. 1C . Dr. PA LEY de6nes virtue, " doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will " of God, and for the fake of everlafting ** happinefs." ** The good of mankind is the fubje&, the ** will of God is the rule, and everlafting... | |
 | 1801 - 860 ページ
...the foundation of virtue; and particularly difcufle* Dr. Paley's definition, that virtue confifts "in doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the fake of everlafting happinefs." That definition, he contends, is objectionable in all its parts, becaufe it makes the will... | |
 | 1802 - 558 ページ
...without which the fpeculations of morality will prove but a broken reed. - . " In vol. ip 41. the author defines virtue to be the ' doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the lake of everlaiitng happinefs.' Mere implicit obedience, therefore, lo the will of God will not, according... | |
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the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
