 | William Paley - 1788 - 584 pages
...reafonings concerning human duty. The method of coming at the will of God concerning any action, by the light of nature, is to inquire into " the tendency of the action to pro" mote or diminifh the general happinefs.'' This rule proceeds upon the prefumption, that God Almighty... | |
 | William Paley - 1793 - 430 pages
...reafonings concerning human duty. The method of coming at the will of God, concerning any action, by the light of nature, is to inquire into " the tendency of the action " to promote or diminifh the general happinefs." This rule proceeds upon the prefumption, that God Almighty wills and... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 566 pages
...Paul's declarations respecting marriage to the present state of society, and the known constitution of our nature, the natural inference seems to be,...will of " God from the light of nature, is to inquire in" to the tendency of the action to promote or di " minish the general happiness."1 There are perhaps... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - 540 pages
...reasonings concerning human duty. The method of coming at the will of God, concerning | any action, by the light of nature, is to inquire into "the' tendency of the action to promote or diminish the general / happiness." This rule proceeds upon the presumption, / that God Almighty wills... | |
 | John Weyland - 1816 - 538 pages
...no room to misapply the opinion* quoted from Dr. Paley, (Mor. Phil. b. ii. c. 4.) by stating that, according to the genuine principles of moral science, "the method of coming at the will of God by the light of nature is, to inquire into the tendency of an action to promote or diminish the general... | |
 | John Weyland - 1816 - 556 pages
...no room to misapply the opinion* quoted from Dr. Paley, (Mor. Phil. b. ii. c. 4.) by stating that, according to the genuine principles of moral science, "the method of coming at the will of God by the light of nature is, to inquire into the tendency of an action to promote or diminish the general... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1819 - 252 pages
...becomes the whole business of morality. The method of coming at the will of God concerning any action, by the light of nature, is to inquire into " the tendency of the action to promote or diminish the general happiness." This rule proceeds upon the presumption, that God Almighty wills and... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 516 pages
...reasonings concerning human duty. The method of coming at the will of God, concerning any action, by the light of nature, is to inquire into " the tendency of the action to promote or diminish the general happiness." This rule proceeds upon the presumption, that God Almighty wills and... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 472 pages
...concerning human duty. The method of coming at the will of God, concerning any action, by the fight of nature, is to inquire into " the tendency of the action to promote or diminish the general happiness." This rule proceeds upon the presumption, that God Almighty wills and... | |
 | William Paley, Edmund Paley - 1825 - 578 pages
...reasonings concerning human duty. The method of coming at the will of God, concerning any action, by the light of nature, is to inquire into " the tendency of the action to promote or diminish the general happiness." This rule proceeds upon the presumption, that God Almighty wills and... | |
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The method of coming at the will of God, concerning any action, by the light of nature, is to inquire into " the tendency of the action to promote or diminish the general happiness. 
