 | Edmund Burke - 1772 - 656 pages
...not by progreflive argumentation, but by an inftantaneous, inftindtive, and irrefiftiblc impulfe ; derived neither from education nor from habit, but from nature ; acting independently on our will, whenever its object is prefented, according to an eftablifhed law, and therefore proper253... | |
 | Robert Eden Scott - 1805 - 524 pages
...progreflive argumentation, but by an inftan* taneous, inftin&ive, and irrefiftibJe impulfe ; * derived / / * derived neither from education, nor from * habit, but from nature ; acting independently * on our will, whenever its object is prefented, * according to an eftablimed law, and there* fore... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1806 - 578 pages
...Common Sense, and he employs this term to denote "that power of the mind which " perceives truth or commands belief, not by progressive argumentation,..." from education nor from habit, but from nature." As it acts independently of our will, whenever its object is presented, according to an established... | |
 | Sir William Forbes, James Beattie - 1807 - 572 pages
...Ccnnmou Seme, and he employs this term to denote " that power of the mind which " perceives truth or commands belief, not by progressive argumentation,..." from education nor from habit, but from nature." As it acts independently of our will, whenever its object is presented, according to an established... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 356 pages
...that power of the mind which perceives " truth or commands belief, not by progressive argu" mentation, but by an instantaneous, instinctive, and " irresistible...from education " nor from habit, but from nature." As it acts independently of our will, whenever its object is presented, according to an established... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 364 pages
...that power of the mind which perceives " truth or commands belief, not by progressive argu" mentation, but by an instantaneous, instinctive, and " irresistible...from education " nor from habit, but from nature." As it acts independently of our will, whenever its object is presented, according to an established... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 362 pages
...that power of the mind which perceives " truth or commands belief, not by progressive argu" mentation, but by an instantaneous, instinctive, and " irresistible...from education " nor from habit, but from nature." As it acts independently of our will, whenever its object is presented, according to an established... | |
 | James Beattie (LL.D.) - 1807 - 400 pages
...philosophers, both French and British, to signify that power of the mind which perceives truth, or commands belief, not by progressive argumentation, but by an instantaneous, instinctive, and irresistable impulse ; derived neither from education nor from habit, but from nature ; acting independently... | |
 | Edward Williams - 1809 - 604 pages
...by philosophers, both French and British, to signify that power of the mind which perw'm truth, or commands belief, not by progressive argumentation,...from habit, but from nature; acting independently on our* will, whenever its object is presented, according to an established law." All this is very... | |
 | John Skinner - 1809 - 694 pages
...he then describes common sense as " signifying that power of the mind, " which perceives truth, or commands belief, not by " progressive argumentation,...neither " from education nor from habit, but from nature act" ing independently on our will, whenever its object is •' presented, according to an established... | |
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Lastly, the term common sense has in modern times been used by philosophers both French and British, to signify that power of the mind which perceives truth, or commands belief, not by progressive argumentation, but by an instantaneous, instinctive, and... 
