 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - Education - 1815 - 598 pages
...Preliminary Dissertations, is peculiarly defective, yet at the same time redundant. " Virtue," he says, " is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. According to which definition," he continues, " the good of mankind is the subject ; the :..•// of... | |
 | Richard Watson - Sermons, English - 1815 - 596 pages
...which is the greatest blessing that either of them can possess. The perfection of virtue consists in doing good to Mankind, in obedience to the will of God ; and what good can be greater than that of generating in a poor man's child, habits of piety and good manners... | |
 | J. W. Baker - Apologetics - 1817 - 262 pages
...that vice has no advantage over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. 51. Virtue is the "doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and Tor the sake of everlasting happiness." Therefore, 52. " The good of mankind" is the subject ; "the... | |
 | John Prior Estlin - Ethics - 1818 - 350 pages
...the whole, Dr. Paley. The definition which this last writer has given of virtue is this : " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness;" according to which definition, the good of mankind is the subject, the will of God the rule, and everlasting... | |
 | William Burdon - Ethics - 1820 - 1026 pages
...those who act right from any motive short of those which are termed religious. " Virtue," he says, " is the doing good to mankind in 'obedience to the will of God, for the sake of everlasting happiness." According to this definition, no man can be virtuous who disbelieves... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1822 - 594 pages
...the system of Paley, therefore, to which I particularly alluded, — a system which defines virtue to be " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, for the sake of everlasting happiness," and which makes, not the love of God, nor the love of mankind,... | |
 | Levi Frisbie - Ethics - 1823 - 310 pages
...ultimate happiness of the agent." Elemente, p. 371. The following is Dr. Paley's definition. " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Mr. Belsham's remarks upon it, referred to above, are these. " But this definition, also, excludes... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 476 pages
...advantage over virtue, eren with respect to this world's happiness. CHAP. VII. Virtue, VIRTUE is " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlosting happiness" According to which deiinition, "the good of mankind" is the subject ; the "will... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 880 pages
...bear a regular superstructure of practical ethics. The philosophers of this school (D) define virtue to be " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the snke of everlasting happincsi:" So that with them " the good of mankind" is the sttbjfct, " the will... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 472 pages
...no advantage over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. CHAP. VII. Virtue. VIRTUE is "the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." According to which definition, " the good of mankind" is the subject ; the " will of God," the rule... | |
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the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
