 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 560 pages
...a certain degree of sense (says this last author, in his Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man,) which is necessary to our being subjects of law and...managing our own affairs, and answerable for our conduct to others. This is called common sense, because it is common to all men with whom we can transact business."... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 582 pages
...Tracy, Tom. III. pp. 136, 137. " ble of managing our own affairs, and answerable for our " conduct to others. This is called common sense, because " it is common to all men with whom we can transact busi" ness." " The same degree of understanding (he afterwards observes) " which makes a man capable... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 348 pages
...certain degree of sense (says this last author, in his " Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man,) which is necessary to " our being subjects of law..." our own affairs, and answerable for our conduct to others. This •• is called common sense, because it is common to all men with whom " we can transact... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 706 pages
...certain degree of sense (says this last author, in his " Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man,) which is necessary to " our being subjects of law and government, capable of managing u oor own affairs, and answerable for our conduct to others. This u is called common sense, because... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 pages
...own •'• affairs, and answerable for our conduct to others. This is called com•• mon stnse, because it is common to all men with whom we can transact " business." The same degree of understanding (he afterwards observes) which •• makes a man capable of acting... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1827 - 706 pages
...sense is given by Heaven to different persons in different degrees. There is a certain degree of it which is necessary to our being subjects of law and...transact business, or call to account for their conduct. The laws of all civilized nations distinguish those who have this gift of Heaven from those who have... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 418 pages
...certain degree of sense" says this last author, in his Essays on the Intellectual Powers of man, " which is necessary to our being subjects of law and...managing our own affairs, and answerable for our conduct to others^ This is called common sense, because it is common to all men with whom we can transact business."... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 442 pages
...certain degree of sense," says this last author, in his Essays on the Intellectual Powers of man, " which is necessary to our being subjects of law and...managing our own affairs, and answerable for our conduct to others. This is called common sense, because it is common to all men with whom we can transact business."... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1846 - 1080 pages
...sense is given by heaven to different persons in different degrees. There is a certain degree of it which is necessary to our being subjects of law and...can transact business, or call to account for their conductThe laws of all civilised nations distinguish those who have this gift of heaven, from those... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1848 - 584 pages
...Dr. Reid says, in his work " On the Intellectual Powers," that " There is a certain degree of sense, which is necessary to our being subjects of law and...managing our own affairs, and answerable for our conduct to others. This is called common sen*et because it is common to all men with whom we can transact business."... | |
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There is a certain degree of it which is necessary to our being subjects of law and government, capable of managing our own affairs, and answerable for our conduct towards others : this is called common sense, because it is common to all men with whom... 
