 It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life: in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character,...  The Southern Review - Page 60edited by - 1867Full view - About this book
 | john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 pages
...: in its precepts (as has been well said) ' thou shalt not' predominates unduly over ' thou shalt.' In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,...below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character, by disconnecting each man's feelings... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1859 - 216 pages
...: in its precepts (as has been well said) 'thou shalt not' predominates unduly over ' thou shalt.' In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,...the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous ur* life : in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to... | |
 | Henry Brooke - 1859 - 496 pages
...Stuart Mill says in his late grand Essay upon Liberty, that " our popular religious ethics, by holding out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as...appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life, fall far below the best of the ancients, and do what they can to give to human morality lii PREFACE.... | |
 | Henry Brooke - 1859 - 490 pages
...Stuart Mill says in his late grand Essay upon Liberty, that "our popular religious ethics, by holding out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as...appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life, fall far below the best of the ancients, and do what they can to give to human morality lii PREFACE.... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - England - 1860 - 394 pages
...Stuart Mill says, in his late grand Essay upon Liberty, that " our popular religious ethics, by holding out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as...appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life, fall far below the best of the ancients, and do what they can to give to human morality an essentially... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - Future punishment - 1860 - 382 pages
...Testament." But if he intends to deny that the system of morality taught by Christ and the apostles " holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell as appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life," we find him in controversy with these declarations... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1863 - 236 pages
...in its precepts (as has been well said) " thou shalt not " predominates unduly over " thou shalt." In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,...below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character, by disconnecting each man's feelings... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1863 - 232 pages
...: in its precepts (as has been well said) "thou shalt not" predominates unduly over " thou shalt." In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,...below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character, by disconnecting each man's feelings... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1865 - 118 pages
...; in its precepts (as has been well said) ' thou shalt not' predominates unduly over 'thou shalt.' In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,...into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven aud the threat of hell, as the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life: in this falling... | |
 | Brooke Foss Westcott - Resurrection - 1866 - 248 pages
...its ' precepts (as has been well said) " thou shalt not " ' predominates unduly over " thou shalt " ' It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of...appointed and appropriate motives to ' a virtuous life Even in the morality of pri' vate life, whatever exists of magnanimity, high' mindedness, . personal... | |
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