 | William Paley - Ethics - 1806 - 502 pages
...favour of those conditions of life in • which men generally appear most cheerful and con T ' tented. For though the apparent happiness of mankind be not...their real happiness, it is the best measure we have. Taking this for my guide, I am inclined to believe that happiness consists, , FIRST, In the exercise... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1809 - 532 pages
...said is that there remains a presumption in favour of those conditions of life in which men generally appear most cheerful and contented; for though the...their real happiness, it is the best measure we have.' — Moral Philosophy, i. 0. 1 A writer who devoted a great part of his life to studying the deaths... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1811 - 540 pages
...is, that there remains a presumption in favour of those conditions of life, in which men generally appear most cheerful and contented. For though the...their real happiness, it is the best measure we have. Taking this for my guide, I am inclined to believe that happiness consists, ,, I. In the exercise of... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1811 - 412 pages
...is, that there remains a presumption in favour of those conditions of life, in which men generally appear most cheerful and contented. For though the...their real happiness, it is the best measure we have. Taking this for my guide, I am inclined to believe that happiness consists, I. In the exercise of the... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1819 - 252 pages
...said is, that there remains a presumption in favor of those conditions of Life in which men generally appear most cheerful and contented. For though the...their real happiness, it is the best measure we have. Taking this for my guide, I am inclined to believe 'that happiness consists, I .. In the exorcise of... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...is, that there remains a presumption in favour of those conditions of life, in which men generally appear most cheerful and contented. For though the...their real happiness, it is the best measure we have. Taking this for my guide, I am inclined to believe that happiness consists, ,.„!„, In the exercise... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...i«, that there remains a presumption in favour of those condition* of life in which men generally appear most cheerful and contented. For though the...their real happiness, it is the best measure we have. Upon this principle, then, happiness appears to consist, i. la the exercise of the social affections.—... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 476 pages
...is, that there remains a presumption in favour of those conditions of life, in which men generally appear most cheerful and contented. For though the...their real happiness, it is the best measure we have. Taking this for my guide, I am inclined to believe that happiness consists, T. In the exercise of the... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...said is, that there remains a presumption in favor of those conditions of life in which men generally appear most cheerful and contented. For though the...their real happiness, it is the best measure we have. 18 Taking this for my guide, I am inclined to believe that happiness consists, I. In the exercise of... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1824 - 516 pages
...is, that there remains a presumption in favour of those conditions of life, in which men generally appear most cheerful and contented. For though the...mankind be not always a true measure of their real happinessl it is the best measure we have. Taking this for my guide, I am inclined to believe that... | |
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All that can be said is, that there remains a presumption in favour of those conditions of life, in which men generally appear most cheerful and contented. For though the apparent happiness of mankind be not always a true measure of their real happiness,... 
