 | William Paley - Ethics - 1806 - 502 pages
...I take it, we always. And from this account of obligation it follows., that we can be obliged to do nothing, but what we ourselves are to gain or lose something by ; for npth. ing else can be a " violent motive" to us. As we should not be obliged to obey the laws, or the... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1811 - 540 pages
...it, we always reckon ourselves to be obliged. And from this account of obligation it follows, that we can be obliged to nothing, but what we ourselves...magistrate, unless rewards or punishments, pleasure or pain, some how or other, depended upon our obedience ; so neither should we, without the same reason, be... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1811 - 412 pages
...it, we always reckon ourselves to be obliged. And from this account of obligation it follows, that we can be obliged to nothing, but what we ourselves...obliged to obey the laws, or the magistrate, unless regards or punishments, pleasure or pain, somehow or other, depended upon our obedience ; so neither... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1819 - 252 pages
...it, w& always reckon bufSelvts to be obliged. And from this account of obligation it follows, that we can be obliged to nothing;, but what we ourselves...magistrate, unless rewards or punishments, pleasure or pain, some how or other depended upon our obedience ; so neither should we, without the same reason, be obliged... | |
 | 1824 - 288 pages
...in this sense, and with this distinction? Q. What follows from this account of obligation ? A. That we can be obliged to nothing, but what we ourselves...are to gain or lose something by ; for nothing else cati be a violent motive to us. CHAPTER III. Q. REMEMBERING our definition of being obliged, I resume... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1824 - 516 pages
...it, we always reckon ourselves to be obliged. And from this account of obligation it follows, that we can be obliged to nothing, but what we ourselves are to gain or lose somethmg by ; for nothing else can be a" violent motive" to us. Aa we should not be obliged to obey... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1825 - 490 pages
...it, we always reckon ourselves to be obliged. And from this account of obligation it follows, that we can be obliged to nothing but what we ourselves...rewards or punishments, pleasure or pain, somehow or ftlhcr depended upon our obedience ; so neither should we, without the same reason, be obliged to do... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1827 - 250 pages
...it, we always reckon ourselves to be obliged. And from this account of obligation it follows, that we can be obliged to nothing but what we ourselves...to us. As we should not be obliged to obey the laws of the magistrate, unless rewards or punishments, pleasure or pain, somehow or other, depended upon... | |
 | William Paley - Sermons - 1830 - 430 pages
...it, we always reckon ourselves to be obliged. And from this account of obligation it follows, that we can be obliged to nothing, but what we ourselves...magistrate, unless rewards or punishments, pleasure or pain, some how or other, depended upon our obedience ; so neither should we, without the same reason, be... | |
 | William Paley - 1831 - 692 pages
...it, we always reckon ourselves to be obliged. And from this account of obligation it follows, that vances of nature surpass the contrivances of art,...complexity, subtility, and curiosity of the mechanism or pleasure or pain, somehow or other, depended upon our obedience ; so neither should we, without... | |
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And from this account of obligation it follows, that we can be obliged to nothing, but what we ourselves are to gain or lose something by ; for nothing else can be a ' violent motive ' to us. As we should not be obliged to obey the laws, or the magistrate,... 
