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As to the firft, it muft be owned, that,, taking reafon in the mofl extenfive fenfe, for the power of difcovering truth and good, of approving them, and diftinguifhing them from the contrary; in this extenfive fenfe*
Essays and Dissertations on Various Subjects: Relating to Human Life and Happiness 1770
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I muft however declare, that it would give me particular pleafure to receive convidion, that Mr. Lindfey's meeting-houfe and your own are not more emphatically conventicles; in your own fenfe, that is, in the word fenfe of the word.
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And if, by paraphrafing part of it, and commenting upon the reft, he has forced its language to fpeak a fenfe different from what it can bear, he now folicits pardon for the liberty he has taken.
Strictures on the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Ireland:: From the Most Ancient Times ... 1789
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Every time they pull something like this is just makes one more person who was straddling the fenfe shake their heads in disgust and shift away from the left a bit more.
Say Anything 2008
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Every time they pull something like this is just makes one more person who was straddling the fenfe shake their heads in disgust and shift away from the left a bit more.
Say Anything 2008
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Every time they pull something like this is just makes one more person who was straddling the fenfe shake their heads in disgust and shift away from the left a bit more.
Say Anything 2008
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Every time they pull something like this is just makes one more person who was straddling the fenfe shake their heads in disgust and shift away from the left a bit more.
Say Anything 2008
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I appeal to the common fenfe of mankind on the point.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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I put my truft in the old fafhioned notions of common fenfe, and common prudence.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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Taste, in the fenfe in which I have explained it, is a faculty common in fome degree to all men.
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