| John Owen - Great Britain - 1804 - 104 pages
...writer appears to have fallen in his Treatise of Moral Philosophy. For having defined morality to be " that science which teaches men their duty and the reasons of it," he proceeds to cite the law of honour as one of the three rules by which men are governed. That respectable... | |
| 1805 - 498 pages
...Fashionable World avows itself to be governed. ' A celebrated writer, having defined morality to be that science which teaches men their duty and the reasons of it, proceeds to cite the law of honour, as one of the three rules by which men are governed. T-hat respectable... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 684 pages
...roan, in every situation of life, the most important of all knowledge f — Now moral philosephy is that science which teaches men their duty, and the reasons of 'it. We should be happy if our limits allowed us to enter minutely into this important subject ; but we... | |
| William Nicholson - 1809 - 716 pages
...man, in every situation of life, the most important of all knowledge f — Now moral philosophy is that science which teaches men their duty, and the reasons of it. We should be happy if our limits allowed us to enter minutely into this important subject ; but we... | |
| William Paley - Theology - 1811 - 540 pages
...SCIENCE. MORAL Philosophy, Morality, Ethicks, Casuistry, Natural Law, mean all the same thing ; namely, that science which teaches men their duty and the reasons of it. The use of such a study depends upon this, that, without it, the rules of life, by which men are ordinarily... | |
| William Paley - Ethics - 1811 - 412 pages
...SCIENCE. MORAL PHILOSOPHY, Morality, Ethics, Casuistry, Natural Law, mean all the same thing; namely, that science which teaches men their duty and the reasons of it. The use of such a study depends upon this, that, without it, the rules of life, by which men are ordinarily... | |
| Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1819 - 252 pages
...SCIENCE* MORAL PHILOSOPHY, Morality, Ethics, Casuistry, Natural Law, mean all the same thing ; namely, That science which teaches men their duty, and the reasons of it. The use of such a study depends upon this, that, without it, the rules of life by which men are ordinarily... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 406 pages
...man, in every situation in life, the most important of all knowledge ?" — Now moral phiJosophy is that science which teaches men their duty, and the reasons of it. We should be happy, if our limits allowed us, to enter minutely into this important subject ; but we... | |
| William Pinnock - Readers (Elementary) - 1822 - 252 pages
...effects of the manners of nature, and the actions of bodies on each other. 90. Moral Philosophy is that science which teaches men their duty, and the reasons of it. 91. Physiognomy. Physiognomy is that art which pretends to know the humours or dispositions of a person... | |
| Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...science. I Moral philosophy, morality, ethics, casuistry, natural law, mean all the same thing ; namely, That science which teaches men their duty, and the reasons of it. The use of such a study depends upon this, that, without it, the rules of life by which men are ordinarily... | |
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