 | Robert Mudie - Social ethics - 1840 - 352 pages
...Virtue, according to Paley, consists in III. AA 266 ERROR OF " doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and FOR THE SAKE OF EVERLASTING HAPPINESS." This passage is so very important, — as embodying the essence of the theory in very few words, that... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - Women - 1840 - 544 pages
...cannot be rendered thus positive. Dr. Paley asserts, that " virtue is the doing good, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Now, if he could have proved this, by a train of reasoning, founded upon a self-evident proposition,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1840 - 616 pages
...illustration of the debasing vulgarity of his code. " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." So that any act of good to man in obedience to God, if it arise from any motive but a desire of the... | |
 | George Combe - Ethics - 1840 - 484 pages
...does not admit such a faculty, but declares virtue to consist " in doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Dr. Adam Smith endeavors to show that sympathy is the source of moral approbation. Dr. Reid, Mr. Stewart,... | |
 | 1841 - 632 pages
...does not admit such a faculty, but declares virtue to consist 1 in doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.' Dr. Adam Smith endeavours to show that sympathy is the source of moral approbation. Dr. Reid, Mr. Stewart,... | |
 | Phrenology - 1841 - 608 pages
...does not admit such a faculty, but declares virtue to consist ' in doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.' Dr. Adam Smith endeavours to show that sympathy is the source of moral approbation. Dr. Reid, Mr. Stewart,... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Sermons - 1842 - 618 pages
...upon, and it is generally understood to include thus much : The doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting- happiness. Obedience to God is the principle, the good of mankind the matter, our own happiness the end, of all... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1842 - 554 pages
...in each of which a grave error is involved. " Virtue consists in doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." It is enough to say, that benevolence is not the whole duty of man, that right is of inherent and necessary... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Theology - 1842 - 620 pages
...upon, and it is generally understood to include thus much : The doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. Obedience to God is the principle, the good of mankind the matter, our own happiness the end, of all... | |
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Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the Will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
