 | 1755 - 768 strani
...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 strani
...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.... | |
 | 1786 - 680 strani
...fcparating morality from religion, defines virtue to be' "the doing good to mankind in obe" dience to the will of GOD, and for " the fake of everlafting happinefs ;" and who has, upon each article of human duty, combined with the conclufions of rcalim the declarations... | |
 | William Paley - 1788 - 584 strani
...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 strani
...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" the rule,... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 424 strani
...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 - 618 strani
...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... | |
 | 1799 - 614 strani
...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... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1800 - 614 strani
...of this lafl celebrated writer that the artillery of our author is chiefly directed. Paley defines virtue to be « the doing good to mankind in obedience...to the will of God, and for the fake of everlafting happincfs.' This definition, it is contended, is liable to objection in all its parts, as ' the {object... | |
 | 1801 - 860 strani
...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 of God the... | |
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the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
