 | William Paley - Ethics - 1806 - 502 pages
...there be any instinctive maxims at all ; or any difficulty in ascertaining what maxims are instinctive. This celebrated question, therefore, becomes in our...natural history and constitution of the human species. CHAPTER VI. HUMAN HAPPINESS. 1 HE word happy is a relative term ; that !s, when we call a man happy,... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1811 - 540 pages
...there be any instinctive maxims at all ; or any difficulty in ascertaining what maxims are instinctive. This celebrated question, therefore, becomes in our...natural history and constitution of the human species. CHAPTER VI. HUMAN HAPPINESS. 1 HE word happy is a relative term ; that is, when we call a man happy,... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 476 pages
...there be any instinctive maxims at all ; or any difficulty in ascertaining what maxima are instinctive. This celebrated question therefore becomes in our...natural history and constitution of the human species. CHAP. VI. Human happiness. THE word happy is a relative term: that is, when we call a man happy, we... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 472 pages
...there be any instinctive maxims at all ; or any difficulty in ascertaining what maxims are instinctive. This celebrated question therefore becomes in our...are concerned to be, about the natural history and conatitutiuii of the human species. CHAP. VI. Human happiness. THE word happy is a relative term :... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1824 - 516 pages
...there be any instinctive maxims at all ; or any difficulty in ascertaining what maxims are inetinctive. This celebrated question therefore becomes in our...are more inquisitive, than we are concerned to be, aboui the natural history and constitution of the human species. CHAP. VI. Human happiness. THE word... | |
 | 1824 - 288 pages
...celebrated question become, in our system, one of curiosity ? A. Purely so ; and as such we dismiss it to those who are more inquisitive than we are concerned...natural history and constitution of the human species. * 5 CHAPTER VI. Q. In treating of human happiness, how do you define the word happy ? A. It is a relative... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1825 - 502 pages
...hardly be mistaken, the moral instinct man, so far as I can understand, has nothing more to offer. This celebrated question therefore becomes in our...natural history and constitution of the human species. CHAP. VI. HUMAN HAPPINESS. THE word happy is a relative term: that is, when we call a man happy, we... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1825 - 490 pages
...there be any instinctive maxims at all, or any difficulty in ascertaining what maxims are instinctive. This celebrated question, therefore, becomes in our...pure curiosity ; and as such, we dismiss it to the de* termination of those who are more inquisitive than we are concerned to be, about th« natural history... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1827 - 396 pages
...there be any instinctive maxims at all, or any difficulty in ascertaining what maxims are instinctive. This celebrated question, therefore, becomes in our...system a question of pure curiosity ; and as such, we dimiss it to the determination of those who are more inquisitive than we are concerned to be, about... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1828 - 610 pages
...there be any instinctive maxims at all ; or anv difficulty in ascertaining what maxims are instinctive. This celebrated question therefore becomes in our...natural history and constitution of the human species. CHAPTER VI. Human happiness. THE word happy is a relative term : that is, when we call a man happy,... | |
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This celebrated question, therefore, becomes in our system a question of pure curiosity; and as such, we dismiss it to the determination of those who are more inquisitive, than we are concerned to be, about the natural history and constitution of the... 
